J. J. Abrams Quotes
When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I would watch the remaining 12 or so episodes of 'Breaking Bad' I haven't seen by noon tomorrow, but my wife would kill me. I watched all five seasons of 'The Wire' in a month, and she was not happy about it.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
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I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.