J. J. Abrams Quotes

All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

J. J. Abrams

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I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

Joe Bonamassa

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I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

Jennifer Lynch

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When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.

Anderson Silva

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I'm not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It's really not my place.

Matthew McConaughey

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Why did they go to Hollywood? Because they could get access to the American financial sector. The Jews were neither authorized to be bankers or doctors nor lawyers or professors. That's why they concentrated on something new: cinema.

Jean-Luc Godard

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A slighted woman knows no bounds.

John Vanbrugh

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There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

Mohnish Pabrai

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'Soul Train' means so much to me.

Missy Elliott

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Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.

Jonathan Kozol

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I've always been drawn to raw material.

Alice Ripley

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My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas.

Justin Cartwright

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It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

Julian Ovenden

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