Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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Work is what saves you.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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It's the audiences that inspire me to keep going. I feel that we all grew up together. The majority now are the people who were raised on the music in the Sixties.
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I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.
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I always wanted to make my parents feel proud of me.
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'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
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We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.
