Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.
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Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.
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The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
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I would argue that we have a patriotic duty to move toward energy independence and clean energy. It is a matter of national security - energy security, climate security, economic security, job security, everything.
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I've never worked in the U.K. television industry, but my guess it that it's a tough world for directors.
