Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

Lenny Abrahamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 30, 1966

Topics

GoodMyselfPeopleVoiceThinkPoor

A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right?

Jesse Schell

LifeGoodAchievementBossGameYou

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

Maya Angelou

WorkBlack And WhiteMoneyPeopleMe

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Robert Menzies

ThinkSpeechNever ForgetForget

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

Anna Nicole Smith

MeSmallSmall TownLivingKnew

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

Mia Wasikowska

LearnI CanTryAlwaysFilmSet

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

Roman Abramovich

TimeInformationForgetSayWherever

I've had a lot of people tell me, 'Yeah, sure, you're good at slalom, but wait till you get to the real events like downhill or super-G.' I don't like hearing that.

Mikaela Shiffrin

GoodPeopleMeWaitYouEvents

In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.

Michael Robotham

StarsJobHelpSundayQuitLegends

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

Michael Stipe

TiredMysteryEnigmaPoetMasses

I wouldn't be the same actor if I couldn't do theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

ActorSameTheater

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.

Brian McDermott

FootballPeopleMeAskOutsideGot

There's a lot of times when I shouldn't have been here. I go, 'Man, I'm blessed.' I've had people shoot at me and had all kinds of stuff happen, and somehow I'm still here, and other people are not.

Brian Ortega

ManPeopleMeBlessedGoHappen

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