Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
La'Porsha Renae -
When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
Tamsin Greig -
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Kate Beckinsale -
There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. Wong -
You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
Wayne Shorter
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
Garret Dillahunt -
I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
Idris Elba -
Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
Pam Bondi -
Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
Oprah Winfrey -
There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
Patricia Heaton -
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Ian Frazier
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Camille Paglia -
Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
Jack Welch -
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek - And finding only the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
Langston Hughes -
Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The spirit walks of every day deceased.
Edward Young -
When the world turns completely upside down You say we’ll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore; We’ll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, You’ll wear a coonskin cap, and I a gown Homespun, dyed butternut’s dark gold color. Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor, We’ll swim in milk and honey till we drown.
Elinor Wylie
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I'm glad I chose more vulnerable work about what is love and what is freedom and those kinds of things. But there's something innate in me where I always come back to characters with an edge.
Emory Cohen -
Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner -
I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.
Christopher Walken -
I'm kind of harsher than most people.
Jennifer Coolidge -
You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
Lenny Abrahamson