J. J. Abrams Quotes
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Ted Cruz ,when he was running for president, was a huge 'Princess Bride' fan. He would quote the lines and, you know, trying to win families and everything.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
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With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
