Ziad Abdelnour Quotes

Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.

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• A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May

• I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Women
  • Book
  • Creativity

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Job
  • Control
  • Myself

• Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Chance
  • Direct
  • Tone

• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Bible
  • Southern

• If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

  

  Larry Elder
  • America
  • Man
  • Dad

• I love playing sport.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Sport

• When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Past
  • Lost

• I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Want
  • Identity
  • Driving

• I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

  

  Major Owens
  • Technology
  • Effort
  • Aim

• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Health

• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Stop
  • Dog
  • Silence

• If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

  

  Matt Lauer

• I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Important

• You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Time
  • True
  • Culture

• I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.

  

  Nan Kempner
  • Door
  • Missing
  • Doors

• I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• I did indulge myself in a lot of history reading, to inform myself as to who the real woman was. As far as other actresses’ portrayals, though, I tried to stay clear. It muddles your process, I find.

  

  Natalie
  • Real
  • Reading
  • Clear

• Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Real
  • Learn
  • Fake