#id

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#i #idea #love #machines #personality

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

#huge #i #insult #kid #now

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#ever #everyone #know #never #nobody

The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#clear #consensus #experiencing #ignore #immediate

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#everywhere #going #i #information #into

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#among #calls #comedy #dumb #embarrassing

The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#appear #camera #clothes #completely #did

The director had come to Madrid to court me. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#court #director #had #madrid #me

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#existing #gains #imagine #journey #leaders

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#between #both #important #important aspect #most