Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
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Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.
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Word gets around when the circus comes to town, dont it?
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I say to people that Los Angeles is a city of America's hope and its promise. It's a city where we come from every corner of the Earth here to make the American dream happen.
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I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.
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The court can, and must, only maintain its legitimacy through the dispensation of justice, not by coercion and censorship.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all?
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I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
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We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.
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The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
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I think one of the things that was a huge surprise to everyone with 'Silence of the Lambs' was that that was an Oscar-winning horror movie. It struck such a nerve with audiences that it was a very particular, special experience.
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When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.
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In many myths, the one possibility the gods are most anxious about is that humans will discover some secret of immortality or even... attempt to stride the high heavens. ...It's a little bit like the rich imposing poverty on the poor and then asking to be loved because of it.
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The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.
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I am not a killer. I just win - Thoroughly - After all, winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
