J. J. Abrams Quotes
I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I know it might seem a little superficial, but every actor has their thing. Some people focus on the walk, but for me, it's all about the nails and the voice. Those are the two most important things.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
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I'm a huge fan of Asian cooking in general. I love shabu shabu, and I love hibachi. It's kind of like an experience as opposed to just having something in front of you and you eating it.
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I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it.
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I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
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I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.
