J. J. Abrams Quotes
It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.
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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
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I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.
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It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.
