Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
You can take what life gives you or you can take what you want from life. Your choice.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I would like to direct.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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Obviously I'm not 21 anymore, but I think I can still throw with anybody.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, - and always to plead it successfully.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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All religions segregate also...every religion asserts an order of truth and every other order is regarded as a lie.
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You can take what life gives you or you can take what you want from life. Your choice.
