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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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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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 listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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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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I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.
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That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library book. I think he was very smart and did more than fly a kite.
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I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer.
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life...
