Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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After 'Shirdi Sai,' I wanted a total image makeover. I was looking to transform myself.
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My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
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There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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When I was 17, I entered a modeling contest in my home province in China because my mother wanted me to learn better posture. And the rest is history!
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Chase your dreams but always know the road that will lead you home again.
