Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Never explain yourself to anyone. The person who likes you will not need it. The person who dislikes it will not believe it.
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.
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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
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The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking; love has found.
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An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
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Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.
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The happy do not believe in miracles.
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You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
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Stardust is the hardest thing to hold out for. You must make of yourself a perfect plane - something still upon which something settles - something like sugar grains on something like metal, but with none of the chill. It’s hard to explain.
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The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.
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Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it.
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I think cinema is good for incarnating the parts of the mind that you cannot explain.”
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I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.
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Some actors - myself included - like to know where your character's going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you're going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on 'Homeland,' you do the opposite.
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I think that what we were doing with the live musical version of 'Shrek' was taking the ideas and the structure of the movie and not necessarily reinventing it but reimagining it. It is a very different medium to perform.
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Never explain yourself to anyone. The person who likes you will not need it. The person who dislikes it will not believe it.
