"We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something."

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Source : "J.J. Abrams on the Secret Movie References He Snuck into 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens'". Interview with Bruce Handy, www.vanityfair.com. May 6, 2015.

J. J. Abrams

#Trying Quotes #Trying Too Hard Quotes #Used Quotes

“If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.”
“The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.”

Source : Source: thecelebritycafe.com
“With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves.”
“Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.”
“Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.”
“If I wanted to be free, truly free, I had to choose. There were many points on the compass rose; I had to locate the few that were meant for me. Not any destination picked at random; I had to head for those that summoned me with a passion, for they were the ones that gave meaning to my life. I had to ignore the warnings of those who would tell me why I couldn't do what I wanted to do.”
“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books
“On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.”

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