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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I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
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we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.
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In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.
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These days, I live on the grid – primarily because of medical issues. But I think that it would be hypocritical for a writer to condemn our surveillance culture and then appear on the Charlie Rose show to blather about personal details. Focusing on a writer’s life undermines the power of that writer’s ideas.
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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.
