I had knockback after knockback before I got anywhere. After I got my first record deal I thought that was it, then Gut Records went into liquidation. I was 20. I had no idea what that meant. I had a few days to get myself out of that contract or my work would be owned by someone else.


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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 ...
J. J. WATT
The way I look at it is that somebody in the world, no matter what your field is - teacher, violinis...
J. J. WATT
You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, ...
J. J. ABRAMS
I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.
J. J. WATT
There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappea...
J. J. GREENE
I'm a fast writer.
J. J. ABRAMS
There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking...
J. J. WATT
It's literally, if I'm not working out, I eat the whole time I'm not working out. It'...
J. J. WATT
It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
J. J. WATT
I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the str...
JUICY J
I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listen...
J. COLE
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My mo...
J. COLE
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you...
J. COLE
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, ...
J. COLE
Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it e...
J MASCIS
I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo ...
J MASCIS
'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
J MASCIS
You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J MASCIS
I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ...
J MASCIS