Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.
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I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.
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If we are going to compete in this world we're in today, there is no possible way we can do it with lowering expectations and dumbing down everything. Children are going to suffer, and families' hearts are going to be broken that their kids won't be able to get a job in the 21st Century.
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I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
