Alex Kurtzman Quotes

When you're watching a Hitchcock movie, you, for most of the movie, are playing the guessing game. What's the endgame? What's the plot? How are these people involved? It's the best way to tell the story, and as a viewer, that's what you want to experience.

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• All my books are optimistic!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Books
  • Optimistic

• 'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • World
  • Great
  • Myself

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Universe
  • Two
  • Stupidity

• We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Need
  • Musicians

• With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Father

• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • History
  • Today
  • Nation

• After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Boy

• My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Physics
  • Helped
  • Exposure

• Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Wonder
  • Audience
  • Festivals

• I'm actually not on Twitter.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Actually
  • Twitter

• I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Door

• I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Music
  • Design
  • Start

• We must recognize and keep in the public consciousness the significant contributions and sacrifices Americans of every community have made that have helped forge the greatest country our world has ever known.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • World
  • Country
  • Community

• I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • America
  • Technology

• War is complicated and intense, and it takes time and thoughts to understand what it was.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Time
  • War
  • Thoughts

• I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Real
  • Reflect

• Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

  

  Ian Christe
  • People
  • Good
  • Community

• I know that isn't always easy and that there is self-harm in the world. Sometimes it's hard for people to rise above things.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • People
  • World
  • Sometimes

• When you're watching a Hitchcock movie, you, for most of the movie, are playing the guessing game. What's the endgame? What's the plot? How are these people involved? It's the best way to tell the story, and as a viewer, that's what you want to experience.

  

  Alex Kurtzman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Movie