Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.
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When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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On the issue of behavioral health and the like, the program we have in place has always been available to former players as well.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
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My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news came which has thrilled all Europe and filled her inhabitants with horror - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
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There are some extremely acceptable male comedians out there: Joel Osteen, Abraham Lincoln, the man who played Phil Spector in HBO's 'Phil Spector.' But even those guys, while insightful and amusing, aren't exactly funny.
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Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.
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I'm more rooted in new plays and new writing.
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You spend most of your life working and trying to hone your craft, working on your chops, working on your writing, and you don't really think about accolades. Then you get a bit older and they start coming your way. It's a nice pat on the back.
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The 'Backlisted' podcast describes itself as 'giving new life to old books'. In each episode, John Mitchinson and Andy Miller are joined by a guest from the world of books who brings along some overlooked gem to enthuse about.
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I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
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The spiritual message is we lose our lives in pleasing others; if you're the good child who pleases Mommy and Daddy but internalizes anger, you're setting yourself up for disease.
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I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.
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I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.
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Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.
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No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.
