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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I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.
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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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The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?
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I simply did not want my face to be my talent.
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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.
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I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?
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You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
