J. J. Abrams Quotes
And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.
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See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.
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And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.
