Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I think digital is getting so much better. It's harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
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When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.
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The American flag represents all of us and all the values we hold sacred.
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I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher.
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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
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Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?
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After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.
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I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.
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Batman and the Flash have a whole lot in common behind the mask. They've both experienced loss, know forensic science, and are both a bit introverted. In 'Flashpoint,' Thomas Wayne thinks Barry is crazy, but Barry thinks Thomas is crazy. It'll be really fun seeing those two trying to figure things out.
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I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.
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Refusing things - and, specifically, disposable things - should not be confused with sacrifice, she says. Once upon a time, it used to require a sacrifice to buy something. You saved up, you gave up things you might want just so you could put enough money aside to purchase something big or long-lasting or vital. Now, she says, people tend to think the sacrifice is not buying. That's one reason we are swimming in waste, Bea says. In her view, not buying is never a sacrifice, It's a way of saving up for something really important, or saving time, or saving the planet. Or all three.
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Dancing is the body made poetic.
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I think digital is getting so much better. It's harder and harder to make the argument now for film. All things being equal, though, I still prefer to capture on film.
