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.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Business
  • Lawyer
  • Camera

• 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.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • People
  • World
  • Pain

• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hope
  • Never
  • Animals

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Dream
  • Isolation

• 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.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Smart
  • Win
  • President

• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Fun
  • Chance
  • Acting

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Deserve
  • Affirmation

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• 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.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Rural

• This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Hunger

• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Clothes
  • Dead
  • Suit

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

  

  George Allen, Sr.
  • World
  • Earth

• To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.

  

  Chanel West Coast
  • People
  • Reality
  • Artist

• I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Heart
  • Rip

• I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want