Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.
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I see myself not as a leader but as somebody who initiates things or finds the problem or provokes a discussion. You have to be always ready to engage, willing to participate. When events or history happen, you just have to be aware and respond.
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I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
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How could I of all people, chastise someone for their past?
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The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
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I think people like to have their categories clear. They want to know if it's fiction or fact, biopic or not.
