Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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I'm like the wine. The older I get, the better I get.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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It's very frustrating not being on the air.
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Certainly, it's not unprecedented in the fashion world to use human hair on clothing.
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It's love that makes the world go round.
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Can man be free if woman be a slave?
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Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
