J. J. Abrams Quotes
I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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I think my demise has been prematurely reported. That's what I think. I think I'm going take this and make medical history, and I really believe that.
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The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.
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I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.
