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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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
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If I had married, there is much I would not have learned of myself. This has been hard and painful and horrible. But I've learned that I'm stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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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.
