Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
I believe if you don't keep constantly pushing the envelope and outgrowing yourself you're going to get real old sooner than you think.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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If the federal government believes free contraception is vital, then surely it can find another way to implement it than by forcing family businesses and religious broadcasters and others to violate their religious beliefs.
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So many things that I was excited about as a kid were about proximity. The idea that somebody could grow up in rural Iowa and be into break dancing because of YouTube - that was a really simple, profound idea.
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Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
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There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly. The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.
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I believe if you don't keep constantly pushing the envelope and outgrowing yourself you're going to get real old sooner than you think.
