Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synergies. Could the buyer give you access to something you don't have now, like a certain technology? Would it make your life easier? Are you looking for a change? Things will change, so you have to be ready for that.
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Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny.
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We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.
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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
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I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.
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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
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You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.
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All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.
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The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.
