Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.
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I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.
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Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.
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My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.
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People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.
