Lenny Abrahamson Quotes
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
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I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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I have a darker imagination than most people.
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I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.
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In the long run, competitiveness derives from an ability to build, at lower cost and more speedily than competitors, the core competencies that spawn unanticipated products.
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Morley has a gift for doing the kind of story that you think only Morley could do, or that certainly Morley could do better than anyone else.
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To me, anything goes. But that's me.
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Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
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Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.
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In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.
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We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
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The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
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There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.
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'Room' was a particularly cohesive group, crew and cast.
