Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

Lenny Abrahamson

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Me
  • Games

• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Questions

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Energy and bitcoin work really well together because you can pay out in micro-transaction units. As the energy gets used, they pay out, and it's by the kilowatt rather than by the month.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Work
  • Together
  • Energy

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• 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.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Beautiful
  • Old
  • River

• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Important
  • Art
  • Society

• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mother
  • House
  • Night

• We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Serious
  • Choose

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Down

• We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Problem
  • Need
  • Nation

• Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Time
  • Dog
  • Pet

• It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Life
  • Good
  • Job

• I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Character
  • Think
  • Fearless

• Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Child
  • Generation

• I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real.

  

  Flume
  • Real
  • Successful
  • Pressure

• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.

  

  Conrad Black
  • Opinion
  • Greed

• There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Time
  • Competition

• Even when I'm tired, when I come home and think about catching up on my sleep, I'd rather stay up and hold my daughters.

  

  Charlie Haas
  • Up
  • Home
  • Sleep

• Delusion is not good; better to be realistic and then surprise yourself if you're lucky.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
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