J. J. Abrams Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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We're all working together; that's the secret.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
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I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.
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My face changes when I wear make-up; I don't recognise myself.
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Thanks to everyone who's encouraged and supported my work over the years.
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Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.
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I love horror movies. I mean, who doesn't like a good horror movie every once in a while? It's fun to get scared.
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I'm obsessed with socks. I even wear them to bed!
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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(perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)
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Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To them it is salvation and beatification.
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When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.
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En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!
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'He's quiet as well, especially if you stalk him.'
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I have the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine.
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Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.
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Of course there is a monkey. There is always a monkey.
