Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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The abortion industry can try to improve its 'messaging' all it wants. But unless abortion advocates change their devotion to abortion-on-demand, the only message Americans will receive is that the abortion industry is only really interested in improving its bottom line at the expense of the most defenseless among us.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
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I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.
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I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.
