Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.
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'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.
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Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
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Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.
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It's nice to be right sometimes.
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After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
