Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
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When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
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There's a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond - and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.
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Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
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There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.
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The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.
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Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.
