Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

Lenny Abrahamson

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• War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Economic
  • Rights

• 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.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Want
  • Dark
  • Negative

• There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Together
  • Success

• I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Beat

• After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Learn

• Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • American
  • Best
  • Car

• Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Good
  • Career
  • Nice

• I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Favorite
  • Eat
  • Meal

• The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• My philosophy is always to fulfill contracts.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Always
  • Philosophy
  • Fulfill

• It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Character

• It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Matter
  • Get
  • Ball

• I have a controversial opinion about evil, because I don't believe evil exists. I believe that actions are dark and destructive but I don't believe evil is a thing. I believe it's a by-product of man's fear and desperation.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Fear

• I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Mind
  • Why

• The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • God
  • Love
  • Truth

• In terms of doing another franchise after 'Transformers,' I don't know if that would be best for me. I'm really happy to inhabit the world of independent film.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• I like to erase lines between categories. Why separate cookbook writing from writing, healthy from good tasting? I want to be open to possibilities.

  

  Crescent Dragonwagon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

  

  Chester Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Hurt

• My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Work
  • Job
  • Beauty

• I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Goal
  • Great Art

• But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sweet
  • Tree
  • Dust

• I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watching things on TV. But if I were Stalin, I would force everyone to be in the theater.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson