Damon Lindelof Quotes
I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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No two wars are identical.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.
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If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
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How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.
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I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.
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Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.
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I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks.
