Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life...
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
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Pardon the plug, but what I like most about Toronto is Metro Morning's audience. I think it's got to be the most multi-faceted, multi-lingual, omni-curious collection of plugged-in people I've ever encountered.
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life...
