Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile.If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style,and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
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Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.
