J. J. Abrams Quotes

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Know
  • Training

• My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Consciousness

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Saying

• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Man
  • You

• It's great when you have people who will speak passionately and honestly about what they are doing.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Great
  • Speak

• I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Director

• Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Vision
  • First
  • Filmmaking

• When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Look
  • Makeup

• You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Political

• If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • World
  • Business
  • Pretty

• All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Inspiration
  • Moment
  • Talk

• At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

  

  Ben Fountain
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Care
  • Trump
  • Speech

• More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Risk
  • Stupid

• How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Painting
  • Admiration
  • Resemblance

• I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

  

  J. J. Abrams