Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

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• I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.

  

  Sam Worthington
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• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
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  • Myself

• There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
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• Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.

  

  Yuna
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• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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• I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.

  

  India de Beaufort
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• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
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• People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
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• There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these are books for adults. Actually, they're just stories, and if they're good stories, then they surpass those boundaries.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
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• Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

  

  Flavor Flav
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• Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.

  

  Maluma
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• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
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• However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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• A film is like a mad arranged marriage, with all these people who don't necessarily want to be with each other forced into this intimate, exhausting process.

  

  Jason Flemyng
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• You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

  

  Brandi Chastain
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• Poets are always making waves. I mean, you know, in an ideal situation, the ideal republic can't tolerate poets because - it isn't that they mutter and criticize; it is that the poet does not accept the situation called the 'perfect' condition of man - in other words, perfect in the materialistic sense.

  

  Derek Walcott
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• I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
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