Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

Lenny Abrahamson

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• Well, I'm a Harley Babe.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Well
  • Babe
  • Harley

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Actor

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • Character
  • Culture

• I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • House
  • Song

• As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Dance
  • Mistakes

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Doors

• I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Children
  • Myself
  • Child

• What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Fun

• The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • America
  • Future

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Live
  • Hatred
  • Israel

• There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Live
  • Trying

• The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Moral
  • Social
  • View

• This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.

  

  Mark Rothko

• Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Nature
  • Mercy

• What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Small
  • Party
  • Woman

• I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

  

  Donna Leon
  • She
  • Stop
  • Justice

• I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • Hurt
  • Victory
  • Immigration

• When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson