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J. J. Abrams Quotes

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

J. J. Abrams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: June 27, 1966

Topics

Time Society Long Long Time Social

I am doing my job and trying to win a game for my team. I shouldn't be getting racially abused; it's silly.

Jermain Defoe

Job I Am Team Win Game Doing

I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere.

Joel Grey

Love Moment Sitting Expectation Up

I got to fight the greatest-of-all-time in my weight division - not once but twice. I was watching this guy when I was 16 years old when I first started kickboxing. I wanted to fight Aldo in a kickboxing match. A couple years later, I came to MMA and wanted to fight him. 10 years later, I got to fight the man twice.

Max Holloway

Man Fight First Watching Division

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

John Wanamaker

Business People Dinner Talk Only

Writing is work and cooking is relaxing.

Diane Mott Davidson

Work Cooking Writing Relaxing

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.

Debbie Gibson

Love Hope Night You Career Down

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

Anthony Browne

Good Art Job Medical College Mess

The dropping of bombs on people - isn't that terrorism?

Alice Walker

People Terrorism Dropping Bombs

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Phil Klay

Work Time Lie People You Down

When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.

Susanna Moore

Beach Ride Boy Rabbit Nine Taught

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

Rick Perlstein

Economics Wings Too Much Understand

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

Ridley Scott

Man Do The Right Thing War World