Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
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Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.
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Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous - music binds us altogether.
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Frank's really different from everything I've done. Maybe the one thing that's the same, and the thing that I tend to do, is that I think I can create an intimacy with the characters, like a sense of presence with the people in the film, and that's what I tried to do in 'Room' as well.
