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" I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking. "

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" I remember what it was like to be doing 'Lost' and how creatively immersive it was. I just couldn't really engage on anything else, other than 'Lost;' I was just thinking about it all the time, and then there was just the pure workload, the 70- or 80-hour weeks. "

" I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy. "

" The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that. "

" In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. "

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" I always remember liking school. "

" I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over. "

" I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie. "

" A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes. "

" All great sci-fi is: Be careful what you wish for. "

" I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in. "

" We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?' "

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" My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?' "

" The interpretive element of 'Lost' - the fact that you immediately need, as soon as the episode is over, to seek out a community of people to express your own thoughts about it, understand what they thought about it and form an opinion - that's the bread and butter of the show. "