Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
Dan Deacon -
Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
Barry Levinson -
In the music world, ageism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
Yoko Ono -
I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Nancy Friday
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'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.
Kara Lindsay -
The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
Barbara Mikulski -
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
Umberto Eco -
Sense About Science is much more than an innocent fact-checking service. It is a spin-off of a bizarre political network that began life as the ultra-left Revolutionary Communist Party and switched over to extreme corporate libertarianism when it launched 'Living Marxism' magazine in the late eighties.
Zac Goldsmith -
I haven't had an orthodox career.
Sally Field -
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
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I'm kind of a recluse.
Faye Dunaway -
When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
Sam Abell -
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
Dallas Willard -
A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.
Rachel McAdams -
If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Giti: Nobody ever came for my hand.
Khaled Hosseini
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I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.
Jon Jones -
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
Kevin J. Anderson -
I felt okay for the first 45 seconds, and then my vision grew fussy. My lungs felt like deflated balloons. I would have sucked oxygen through my ears, if that were possible. I was experiencing oxygen debt, or perhaps better stated, oxygen death.
Brad Alan Lewis -
I have this weird allergy where metal can't touch my skin.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan -
Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
Lenny Abrahamson