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.
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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.
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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.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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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.
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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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.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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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.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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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.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.
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The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
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In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.
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Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.
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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.
