Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
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I know what it's like and how hard my assistants work, and I try to treat them as fair as possible and make the office a fun environment.
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Rejection is never personal, so don't let it consume you.
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I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.
