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.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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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.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
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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.
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Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
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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.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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The spirit walks of every day deceased.
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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.
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The individual Siemens businesses must be able to keep up with the specialists in the industry and be at least as good as their strongest competitors.
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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind.
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When I'm on really tough golf courses, I feel like I'm more focused because I'm really trying to hit the ball to a certain spot, instead of, a lot of times, when I struggle sometimes is just staying mentally focused on every shot.
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Everybody laughs all the time, and some of the worst things that happen make you laugh 'cause it's a defense isn't it, I suppose.
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Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
