Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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The stratosphere is a hostile place.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
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Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.
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I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
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I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
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I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.
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I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.
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To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.
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I did three movies in a row, and that was horrible. It was a horrible experience for me.
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Maturity comes with experience, not age.
