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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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 wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.
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True he was a vocal miracle But that's only secondary It's the soul of the monarch butterfly That I find a little bit scary
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Like many Americans, I am still haunted by images from the last days of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975. Newscasts showed South Vietnamese desperately trying to scale the walls of our embassy in Saigon to board the last helicopter flights out of the country. The fear in their eyes was chilling.
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Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.
