J. J. Abrams Quotes
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
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Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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Events are the best opportunities to experiment with clothes, as we have to stick to a character in films.
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You think everybody's paying attention to what you're doing. No, they're paying attention to what's interesting to them.
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Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
