Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
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Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How much do you want me to see?'
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Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.
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Nobody scares me.
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I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.
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I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
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You must never tire fighting Satan.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
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I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better than I? Somebody even asked me the other day if I had anything in my platform about taxes. 'Hell yes,' I said. 'Great state. But I wouldn't want to live there.'
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Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.
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Light held together by moisture.
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It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning, witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
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Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.
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There had to be a point where I had to stop feeling sorry for myself.
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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.
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I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
