Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.
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I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
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The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I wanted to make films that were culturally relevant in my own country, that challenged people, and that people talked about.
