J. J. Abrams Quotes
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
J. J. Abrams
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The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
Valerie Plame
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
Pardis Sabeti
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
Gary Wolf
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
Queen Latifah
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Abraham Lincoln
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
E. M. Forster
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
Jaan Tallinn
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When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
Larry Harvey
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
Iggy Pop
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
Walter Mosley
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
Eckhart Tolle
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While writing 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' I enjoyed playing with minor things: inventing a train station in a town that has none, placing towns closer to each other than they are, changing the chronology of conquered cities. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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When I used to work in television, a tip was rather than looking down the barrel of the camera and imagine people watching, which is terrifying, imagine your most discerning friend observing you, and imagine you're just talking to them.
Alexa Chung
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The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
Bill Vaughan
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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
Mark Hopkins
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
Montgomery Clift
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We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
J. J. Abrams
