J. J. Abrams Quotes
'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.J. J. Abrams
Quotes to Explore
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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner -
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham Lincoln -
There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
Fionn Whitehead -
The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
Foster Friess -
If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
Randall Jarrell -
Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
Malcolm Lowry
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula -
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
Taraji P. Henson -
NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
Rachael Ray -
I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
Olivia Colman -
Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
Gabriele Nanni -
Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
Ramana Maharshi
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
E. M. Forster -
I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Yul Vazquez -
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
Maajid Nawaz -
By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
Larry Kramer -
Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
Rahm Emanuel -
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
Uma Thurman
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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Daniel Bell -
To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
Beck -
The public always picks quality.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
One of my favorite shows when I was a kid was the old 'Star Trek' reruns.
Rekha Sharma -
'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
J. J. Abrams