Damon Lindelof Quotes
'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.
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I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
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Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.
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I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
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'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.
