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J. J. ABRAMS I don't think I have a signature.
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J. J. ABRAMS I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the ...
J. J. ABRAMS I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a...
J. J. ABRAMS I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end...
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.
J. J. ABRAMS You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. ABRAMS To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. ABRAMS I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
J. J. ABRAMS We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
J. J. ABRAMS It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. ABRAMS When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and t...
J. J. ABRAMS Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles ...
J. J. ABRAMS You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
J. J. ABRAMS When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics an...
J. J. WATT I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.
J. J. WATT There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
J. J. PROCTER If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every si...
J. J. WATT I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and ener...
J. J. WATT What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
J. J. WATT I'm obsessed with things that are distinctly analogue.
J. J. ABRAMS Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
J. J. FURNAS What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so exci...
J. J. ABRAMS My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice pres...
J. J. WATT I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I th...
J. J. WATT What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically...
J. J. ABRAMS With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. ABRAMS You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One D...
J. J. WATT My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p...
J. J. WATT When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, ...
J. J. WATT Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ...
J. J. ABRAMS I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don&...
J. J. WATT Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that ...
J. J. ABRAMS It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don...
J. J. WATT In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there's always ...
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