Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
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I'm pretty boring.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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The future of how the networks and studios deal with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon Prime Instant Video is certainly going to determine their future.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law.
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Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.
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The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.
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You always gotta find a little bit of time for the girls, right?
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I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.
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Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
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Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.
