Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.

Lenny Abrahamson

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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.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Important
  • Eyes
  • Face

• 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.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Work
  • Me
  • Interested

• A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Marriage
  • Wedding
  • Flowers

• Everything I do is for my parents, None of this matters without them. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here... If it wasn't for them, if it wasn't for the structure and the backbone that I have, I wouldn't be able to mess up and keep coming back and sit in front of you as a world champion.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• Success is really about your mindset.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Success
  • Mindset
  • Success Is

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Tongue
  • Heat

• I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Never Forget

• I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • College
  • Years
  • Actor

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• 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.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Experience
  • You
  • Impossible

• There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Songwriting

• 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.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Food

• Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Love
  • Like
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• 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.

  

  Garrett Camp
  • Life
  • Up
  • Change

• 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.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Together
  • India

• We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Long
  • Feeling

• I work out seven days a week, and I love every minute of it. It really is a way just to get away. I weight train and do cardio and stay active as much as possible every day; I have to just to clear my head. I love to get into the gym.

  

  Matt Cohen
  • Work
  • Gym

• There are a handful of legacy clubs like the Dodgers in each league. They're in major markets and have a history of winning where, if you do things right, there's an enormous upside.

  

  Dave Checketts
  • History
  • Winning
  • Legacy

• I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Mom
  • Things
  • Anymore

• I think penguins are cute.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Cute

• The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson