J. J. Abrams Quotes
Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I don't have many friends.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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Obviously, the more you tour, the more comfortable you get.
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On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.
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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
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Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
