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"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit."
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"Every misfortune is a fortune."
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"Don't conform. Don't live in a small dirty pond when the ocean of life is lovingly inviting you."
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"No matter how disappointing you believe your life currently is, it is never too late to start reshaping it to become an amazing testimony."
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"Identify darkness in the society and find ways to help illuminate it."
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"Things don't only change, they also change you; sometimes for good, sometimes not."
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"Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires."
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"The ultimate change one can ever seek for is a change in thought. A change in thought is a change in body."
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"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
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"You will never get to a new place by walking an old path."
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"The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will."
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"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."
Business
"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
Love
"Five years ago, Samira did not want to continue in the regular school system in Iran. To help her with her education, I set up a home school. It wasn't just for my family, it was open to other friends."
Home
"I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me."
Life
"Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are."
Movies
"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit."
Change
"Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
God
"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that."
Life
"If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way."
Style
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