Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think... Grow up & lose the fear.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
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I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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I have fought all over the world, and I am excited to be in 'EA Sports MMA' because this game is going to show the global appeal of mixed martial arts.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.
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What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.
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I am afraid the greatest prison that people live in is the fear what other people think... Grow up & lose the fear.
