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 believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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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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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset?
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Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.
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In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
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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.
