Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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While I feel it's important for films to examine our society, I don't particularly like watching the films that do it.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
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If your government says you can own property and maintain control of it, but only if you pay property taxes, you are a renter, not an owner. Governments get away with these rackets because enough people still believe they somehow represent “the will of the people,” as opposed to their sponsors.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people.
