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.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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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.
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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.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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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.
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I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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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.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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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.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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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.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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Goya, Miró, Matisse, Bosch and Klee.
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I think the voice is an underrated instrument these days and it's easy to make up for lack of ability with effects. I think sometimes people are more wowed with effects than core craftsmanship. Strong voices are not as common as they used to be.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
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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.
