J. J. Abrams Quotes
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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We're actually thinking about distributing 'Moon Over Broadway' on-line. It's tempting, because when you go to a major studio, it's sort of like a farm, you know? They make all the money, since it's kind of a buyer's market.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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Now you can get on Facebook and read an article, '10 Ways You Are Ruining Your Child Forever.' I'm sure it's making us better parents in some ways, but in other ways, it is sending us all a little crazy.
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I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
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I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.
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I know stereotypes have a bad reputation, people say, "Oh, you shouldn't stereotype people," but I think it's important to recognize that we couldn't function in the world without stereotypes.
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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
