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J.J. Abrams Quotes

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“Well, fear's sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency, my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her dural sac. Shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. And so it ripped open. And the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and I … And the terror was just so … crazy. So real. And I knew I had to deal with it. So I just made a choice. I'd let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for five seconds, that's all I was going to give it. So I started to count: One, two, three, four, five. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine.”
— Jack Shephard, Lost, Season 1: Pilot Part 1
Tagged: Bravery, Fear, Being Brave
“Stormtrooper: Sir, Resistance fighters. We need more troops. 

Kylo Ren: Pull the division out. Forget the droid. We have what we need.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: Resistance, troops, Fighters
“Sayid Jarrah: You'd think they would've come by now.

Charlie Pace: What? Who?

Sayid Jarrah: Anyone.”
— Sayid Jarrah, Lost, Season 1: Pilot Part 1
Tagged: Abandoned, No One Is Coming, Rescue
“Kylo Ren: We're not done yet. 

Rey: You're a monster! 

Kylo Ren: It's just us now. Han Solo can't save you.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: monster, Unfinished Business, Threat
“Supreme Leader Snoke: The scavenger... resisted you? 

Kylo Ren: She is strong with the Force.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: scavenger, force
“Choose someone you’re attracted to, someone you have come to love, and someone you hold in the highest regard.”
— J.J. Abrams, J.J. Abrams Keynote Address to the Class of 2017
Tagged: Attraction, Love, H4D-17
“You want the person that you cannot believe has chosen you — not because you have a bad self-image but because you have such high regard for them.”
— J.J. Abrams, J.J. Abrams Keynote Address to the Class of 2017
Tagged: Dating, Love, H4D-15
“It's not your job to give me the plan. I'm giving you the plan.”
— Michael Vaughn, Alias, Season 1: So It Begins
Tagged: I'm Your Boss
“Two players, two sides. One is dark, one is light.”
— John Locke, Lost, Season 1: Pilot Part 1
Tagged: Good vs. Evil
“The droid... stole a freighter?”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: droid, freighter
“Poe Dameron: [strapped in an interrogation chair]  Not really. 

Kylo Ren: I'm impressed. No one has been able to get out of you what you did with the map. 

Poe Dameron: You might want to rethink your technique.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: Interrogation
“I will fulfill our destiny.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: Destiny, Determination
“Kylo Ren: Look how old you've become. 

Lor San Tekka: Something far worse has happened to you. 

Kylo Ren: You know what I've come for. 

Lor San Tekka: I know where you come from, before you called yourself 'Kylo Ren.' 

Kylo Ren: The map to Skywalker. We know you found it. And now you're going to give it to the First Order. 

Lor San Tekka: The First Order rose from the Dark Side. You did not. 

Kylo Ren: I'll show you the Dark Side. 

Lor San Tekka: You may try. But you cannot the truth that is your family. 

Kylo Ren: You're so right.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: Ageism, Truth
“[Kylo Ren Force probes Rey's mind]
Kylo Ren: You're so lonely... So afraid to leave... At night, desperate to sleep... You imagine an ocean... I see it... I see the island... And Han Solo... You feel like he's the father you never had. He would have disappointed you. 

Rey: Get out of my head.

Kylo Ren: You need a teacher. I can show you the ways of the Force. ”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: Lonely, Desperate, Ocean
“Peter Bishop: Let me ask you something. My father — not my favorite — he is without a doubt the most self-absorbed, twisted, abusive, brilliant, myopic son of a bitch on the planet. So, he was a chemist. That much I already know. He worked out of a basement lab in Harvard, doing research for a toothpaste company. I also know that there was an accident at the lab one night, that my father was arrested, beginning the first truly peaceful period in our home. But here's the thing, Olivia: my gut tells me that your friend's life, the one hanging in the balance, not gonna be saved by a tube of toothpaste.

Agent Olivia Dunham: He worked out of Harvard, but not on toothpaste. He was part of a classified U.S. Army experimental program called "Kelvin Genetics". They gave him the resources to do whatever work he wanted, which was primarily in an area called 'fringe science.'

Peter Bishop: When you say 'fringe science,' you mean 'pseudoscience.'

Agent Olivia Dunham: Things like mind control, teleportation, astral projection, invisibility, genetic mutation, reanimation, fertility...

Peter Bishop: Woah. Excuse me for a sec. Reanimation? Really? So you're telling me, what, my father was Dr. Frankenstein?”
— Peter Bishop, Fringe, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: father, Family, Abusive, Brilliant, Harvard, Toothpaste, Scientist, army, Genetics, Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, Mind Control, Teleportation, genetic, frankenstein
“Solo: Ben!

Kylo Ren: Han Solo. I've been waiting for this day for a long time.

Han Solo: Take off that mask. You don't need it.

Kylo Ren: What do you think you'll see if I do?

Han Solo: The face of my son.

Kylo Ren: Your son is gone. He was weak and foolish like his father, so I destroyed him.

Han Solo: That's what Snoke wants you to believe, but it's not true. My son is alive.

Kylo Ren: No. The Supreme Leader is wise.

Han Solo: Snoke is using you for your power. When he gets what he wants, he'll crush you. You know it's true.

Kylo Ren: It's too late.

Han Solo: No, it's not. Leave here with me. Come home. We miss you.

Kylo Ren: I'm being torn apart. I want to be free of this pain. I know what I have to do but I don't know if I have the strength to do it. Will you help me?

Han Solo: Yes. Anything.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: Power, Murder, Son
“Rey: Where am I? 

Kylo Ren: You're my guest. 

Rey: Where are the others? 

Kylo Ren: Do you mean the murderers, traitors and thieves you call friends? You'll be relieved to hear I have no idea. [pause] You still want to kill me. 

Rey: That happens when you're being hunted by a creature in a mask. [Kylo Ren removes his helmet]  

Kylo Ren: Tell me about the droid. 

Rey: He's a BB unit with a selenium drive and a thermal hyperscan vindicator. 

Kylo Ren: It's carrying a section of a navigational chart. And we have the rest. Recovered from the archives of the Empire, but we need the last piece. And, somehow, you convinced the droid to show it to you. You. A scavenger.”
— Kylo Ren, Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tagged: guests, murderers, Traitors, Thieves
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