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"I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time."

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"I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time."

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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
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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."
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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."
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"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth."
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"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."
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"Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity."
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"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
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"Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world."

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"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you."

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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"All great achievements require time."

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"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."

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"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

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"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

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"The years teach much which the days never know."

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"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."

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"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future."

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