Damon Lindelof Quotes
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
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If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.
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I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.
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To have lied is to have suffered.
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The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.
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As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
