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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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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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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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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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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How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
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I really do not like auditioning... it's hard because you never know what you're going to walk into in a room.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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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.
