J. J. Abrams Quotes
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
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Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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Are we going to like it? I'm not sure, ... I don't like some of the games I'm seeing now.
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.
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By the time 1967 had rolled around, general relativity had been relegated to mathematics departments... in most people's minds, it bore no relation to physics. And that was mostly because experiments to prove it were so hard to do - all these effects that Einstein's theory had predicted were infinitesimally small.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
