Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.
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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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In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.
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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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They all attributed the peaceful dominion of religion in their country mainly to the separation of church and state. I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet a single individual, of the clergy or the laity, who was not of the same opinion on this point.
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I'm confident that Gov. Romney can win over the American people on the promise of limited government, defending individual liberties and a return to common-sense solutions to our country's biggest problems.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.
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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene.
