J. J. Abrams Quotes
I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!
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Life is God's art.
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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.
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Thus far we run before the wind.
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I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
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I've just been lucky to work on things that I felt would be cool to see. It's not that I had a strategy or anything.
