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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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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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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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's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.
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When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.
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The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.
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You can take what life gives you or you can take what you want from life. Your choice.
