Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay.
Quotes to Explore
-
If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
-
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
-
In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
-
In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
-
I am strictly against remaking a movie.
-
I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
-
Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
-
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
-
Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
-
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-
Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
-
And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
-
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
-
Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families.
-
I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.
-
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
-
I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.
-
I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.
-
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
-
I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
-
There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.
-
I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.
-
I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?
-
Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people will come to you and stay.
