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 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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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
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I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
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I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.
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I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life...
