Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.
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I did 'Rock of Ages' when it was in both L.A. and Vegas, playing the lead, Drew.
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I know the American administration is trying to refurbish its image after Irangate, especially in the Middle East and among their friends in this area. No doubt about it. We are following it.
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Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.
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Women need to become literary 'criminals', break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
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People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
