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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.


J. Anthony Lukas

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J. J. WATT I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.
J. J. WATT Midi is my hobby.
J. J. JOHNSON There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the l...
J. J. JOHNSON I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood...
J. J. JOHNSON Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've ...
J. J. JOHNSON We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I ha...
J. J. FIELD You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows...
J. J. FIELD The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.
J. J. FIELD The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage...
J. J. ABRAMS I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
J. J. ABRAMS I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
J. J. ABRAMS I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. ABRAMS When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid t...
J. J. ABRAMS People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be su...
J. J. ABRAMS The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
J. J. ABRAMS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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