Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.
Quotes to Explore
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
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I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Have I? I hope somebody beats it out of me very, very soon.
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You know sometimes I sit and wonderJust how this world would beIf we had all the people laughingAnd everybody living in harmony.We'd have to say se la se la.Talking to the people se la, se la.
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He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.
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I felt it necessary to evolve entirely new concepts (of form and space and paintings) and postulate them in an instrument that could continue to shake itself free from dialectical perversions. The dominant ones, Cubism and Expressionism, only reflected the attitudes of power or spiritual debasement of the individual.
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
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The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it's the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.'
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It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.
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For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.
