J. J. Abrams Quotes
I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
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Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do.... No guts no glory.
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Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
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While I love walking past those beautifully lit bookstores in my neighborhood, what I mostly buy there are blank notebooks and last-minute presents for children's birthdays.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
