J. J. Abrams Quotes
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
Quotes to Explore
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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Live your dream and never wake up.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
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I like taking the subway to work.
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The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
