J. J. Abrams Quotes

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Function
  • Within

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Art
  • Hurt
  • Beliefs

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Society
  • Political

• Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Together
  • History
  • Fun

• I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

  

  Jet Li
  • Past

• I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.

  

  Aman Mojadidi
  • Up
  • Work
  • Money

• Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.

  

  C.D. Innes
  • Time
  • Art
  • Taken

• I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Try