Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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I started doing stand-up in college.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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I'm sort of a slob.
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Someone once said that Nirvana attracted everybody that had ever been through a broken home... my niche is a lot more specific: It's a lot of females, and a lot of gay guys, and a few advanced and evolved heterosexual men-not many, but there's a few out there.
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It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.
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The investor world that looks at studios as part of media companies will say that the studio business is supposed to be erratic. Not at our company. Not at Time Warner.
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The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
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I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
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I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.
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I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
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I want to make money for third-world-country kids, and I need to be smart about how to do it.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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Having loads of money doesn't make you a better person.. Spending it smart does.
