J. J. Abrams Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
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I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
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I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.
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As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
