Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Everyone you meet comes with baggage, find someone who cares enough to help you unpack.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
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I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.
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I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
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I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
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I got blessed from my mom. She's the personality; she's the one who smiled, so I took on part of her, and who also wanted to help and save the world. Then I took on part of my dad, who is tough.
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If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.
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American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.
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He told me, 'Make sure when anyone tackles you, he remembers how much it hurts.' He lived by that philosophy and I always followed that advice.
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The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.
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Everyone you meet comes with baggage, find someone who cares enough to help you unpack.
