Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I'm a bit of a late developer, generally. But the good thing about being a filmmaker is you still count as young all the way through your 40s.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I'm a bit of a late developer, generally. But the good thing about being a filmmaker is you still count as young all the way through your 40s.
