Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

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• The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  

  Dana Spiotta
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• The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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• And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.

  

  Lance Ito
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• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

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• I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.

  

  Halsey
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• To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
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• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  

  Jack McBrayer
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• When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

  

  Jeffrey Ross Hyman Ramones
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• When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.

  

  T. E. Hulme
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• I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
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