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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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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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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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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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 love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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I have a darker imagination than most people.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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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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More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.
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I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.
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I love to read scripts. But I am very happy right now to say that I am a working actor. In this town of Los Angeles, the phrase 'I'm an actor' is overrated. So, I like to say, 'I'm a working actor.'
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'Room' was a particularly cohesive group, crew and cast.
