"I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist."

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I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry.

— Abbas Kiarostami