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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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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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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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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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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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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I have a lot of books I want to write.
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I was frightened. I hadn't really had any experience, and then all of a sudden I was thrown straight into doing interviews. Most people have build-up. I had none.
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I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.
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We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.
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We always look for operators with a combination of guts, passion and genius.
