J. J. Abrams Quotes
When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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I think the possibilities are endless in terms of what the genre would be like. However, in terms of looking for sources of money, I think we have to be very careful not to fall into Hollywood's commodification of Chicano culture. We could look at the example of Piri Thomas, a successful Puerto Rican writer now living in the Bay Area, who has received repeated offers from Hollywood...and he said he's not going to write about his people doing drugs and going to jail.
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I am fortunate enough to find opportunities that have a lot of presence.
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
