Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
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And we did so based on the belief that while these transitions will be hard and take time, societies based upon democracy and openness and the dignity of the individual will ultimately be more stable, more prosperous, and more peaceful.
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Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.
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We are not to call for tyranny and bans on freedom. It is obvious that we cannot stop publication of what we view as indecent in our sacred faith...failing to make use of Western freedom of press and other technologies to show the West the values of Islam is intellectual failure and a guilt that should not be linked to Islam.
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If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
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Time, flowing like a river Time, beckoning me Who knows when we shall meet again If ever But time Keeps flowing like a river To the sea
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The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
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Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.
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I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office and doing different jobs. Similarly I don't think I am doing something different... I am also working.
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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
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Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
