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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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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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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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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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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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
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It's fun to be liked, but when standing up for what you believe in, it's also very fun not to be liked.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
