J. J. Abrams Quotes
Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
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And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.
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Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.
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Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
