Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
-
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
-
Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
-
I would love to be a role model.
-
A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
-
Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
-
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
-
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
-
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
-
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
-
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
-
I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
-
My message to the kids and our fans is hockey's a great game. There's a lot of hockey being played at all levels. Get involved, do it. We will be back and we will be back better than ever and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.
-
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
-
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
-
Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
-
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
-
For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
-
When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?
-
I honor and revere the name of Joseph Smith. I delight to hear it; I love it. I love his doctrine. I feel like shouting Hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever knew Joseph Smith, the Prophet whom the Lord raised up. I am bold to say that, Jesus Christ excepted, no better man ever lived or does live upon this earth. I am his witness.
-
A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.
