Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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You see movie stars advertising all sorts of things today for whatever reason. And it may be that it affords them the luxury to do smaller movies or to go and do a play. Because, otherwise, you have to keep doing movies where you get paid millions and millions of dollars to maintain a certain lifestyle.
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I like my world to be calm.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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If you want to wear long hair or wear that dress, as long as you're not hurting yourself or anybody else, I say do it. If you want to go out and have a romantic, sexy affair, do it.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him. We didn't burden him with any social symbolism, we made him no mouthpiece for frustrations or harsh satire. Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter.
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Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology at Stanford and Harvard, and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.
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After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you're always writing for someone else's character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own.
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I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.
