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.

J. J. Abrams

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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.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• 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.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Important
  • Nice
  • Ocean

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • You
  • Reading

• 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?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Important
  • Children
  • You

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • People
  • Important
  • Design

• What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • Changes

• 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.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Health

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• 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.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Important
  • May
  • Earth

• 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.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

• The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Rest

• But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Music
  • Important
  • Culture

• I think if you're going on thinking oh, I can do this with my eyes shut, then it's probably not the right thing to be doing, you know.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Thinking
  • Eyes
  • Right Thing

• Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enemy
  • Forces
  • Attack

• The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Real
  • Model
  • Legacy

• The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Parents
  • Reason
  • Advice

• 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.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Telling Stories