Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
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We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
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In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
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Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
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You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.
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There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.
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Love is the language of the soul when it is not colored by emotion, ego, or attachment.
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I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of this or that political idea. At the same time I want to show a kind of rebellion and transgression, something further.
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But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.
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You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.
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It's one of the best feelings in the world to hit the quarterback like that, hear the crowd go crazy, and then to watch it on film. You look forward to those types of plays. The best part about it is that you never know when it's going to come. Every play you've got to go hard and every play you've got to think and believe that you're going to get that quarterback sack. If you don't get it that play it might be the next play so you've always got to be thinking about it, and when it comes, it's the best.
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Like a lot of small press founders I was looking for a way into publishing - as well as a way out of academia. Without moving to London, I couldn't see a way of working for a publishing house whose work I liked. Believe it or not, the simplest way for me to get into publishing was to start my own press.
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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.
