J. J. Abrams Quotes
Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.
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I was someone who grew up obsessed with bands, how they were and how they treated one another, and how they treated fans.
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Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.
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The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
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My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.
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Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.
