Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
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We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
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I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.
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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
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You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
