Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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I'm really not worried about what fans think.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.
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In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
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I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
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Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
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I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
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I want to coach because I love it. I don't want to sound hokey, but when you play for Frank McGuire, Dean Smith, and Pete Newell - they taught me a lot - I want to share what they taught me with a lot of people. I don't want to stop doing this.
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Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.
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The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.
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Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.
