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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Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.
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Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Maturity comes with experience, not age.
