Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
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You fall for who the chemistry is with.
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I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
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After all is said and done, I believe the true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
