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'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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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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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
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Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
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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.
