Ziad Doueiri Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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I don't know what love means.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I'm one of those who believe the bumper sticker: If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. The first people who are going to be in line to turn in their guns are law-abiding citizens. Criminals are going to be left with guns.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.
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There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
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The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
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The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious-it makes little or no difference.
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The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.
