Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.
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The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
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I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
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It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
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I feel like I never would have been a success and gotten published without my family.
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I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?
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I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the characters to be motivated by the desire for money. In some ways, the crime film is the most honest American film because it portrays Americans as I experience a lot of them, in Hollywood, as being very concerned with money.
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The Key point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.
