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A great actor has a greatness at his or her core that’s hard to imitate.
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When an actor with that special something walks in to a room, it changes color, Timmermann changes.
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Timmermann imagines the actor on-screen.
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For casting director Bonnie Timmermann Los Angeles is vacation, New York is home.
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The child of an opera singer and a boxer finds the right balance for show business.
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The Secretary’s programs lack the necessary depth to be effective, Nafisi says.
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Azar Nafisi on Iranian culture being more poetry than sharia.
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Even if you don’t agree with her views, Nafisi says, Hirsi Ali should not have to fear for her life for expressing them.
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Nafisi’s passion was always literature. Religion was an externally imposed reality.
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No one should be forced to do something they don’t want to do, Nafisi says.
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It is not women who make a big deal out of the hijab, Nafisi says. It is the Islamists.
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Nafisi responds to her critics who allege that Iran has become freer since Nafisi left.
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Nafisi found many of her old students when the book came out.
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There is state power, and then there is the power of the writer to resist the tyranny of reality.