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.
Karen Abbott -
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang -
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.
Irvine Welsh -
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.'
Jack McBrayer -
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.
Hari Kunzru -
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
Salman Rushdie
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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.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
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.
Harold Prince -
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.
Jackie Robinson -
'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
Ted Sarandos -
The camera photographs what's there.
Jack Nicholson -
I have a darker imagination than most people.
Edan Lepucki
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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.
Naomi Klein -
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.
Gary Hamel -
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.
Ed Bradley -
Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
Ambrose Bierce -
I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
Jane Fonda
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When I took drum lessons as a kid the teacher would always ask me if I practiced, and I'd be like 'nope' and he'd be like: "Well you're not going to be able to play the beat." So I would ask him to show me, and he'd show me and I'd be able to hear it and play it, so I've always not really been good at reading things.
Zachary Wayne Farro -
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
Sarah Addison Allen -
The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.
Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant -
'Room' was a particularly cohesive group, crew and cast.
Lenny Abrahamson