Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-Pain -
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
Dani Shapiro -
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
Verne Troyer -
I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
Ian Beattie -
The way I work, things are very nuanced; not everything is explained.
Barry Jenkins -
It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
Kara Swisher
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
Patina Miller -
I want to be proactive in bringing about change and enlightening people.
Octavia Spencer -
Frankly, I don't like publicity.
Randolph Scott -
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
Walter Kirn -
When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.
Aaron Sorkin -
I do take pride in saying that in spite of being in public life for so long, there is not a single case against me, not even for wrongly parking a scooter or driving on the wrong side.
Narendra Modi
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One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.
Sally Ride -
I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
Uzo Aduba -
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
Karl Marx -
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
John Berger
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There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.
Gary Ross -
Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert.
Paula Cole -
I'm not the guy to ask to write a sequel.
Taylor Sheridan -
Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.
Edward Norton -
When I read 'Room,' I absolutely loved it, and I thought I knew how to make it.
Lenny Abrahamson