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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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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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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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.
