Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten and tighten, and nothing really changes until you hit that tension, and suddenly it's there: you've got a note.

Lenny Abrahamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

Jimmy Wales

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I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

John C. Hawkes

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I'm happy to fight for any role.

John Hensley

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If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

Robert H. Schuller

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I have gone to many theaters where it is so unpleasant with the commercials before the movie, the volume, and the disrespect of the filmgoers. So I understand people not wanting to go to the theater.

Jeff Garlin

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My mother believed in curses, karma, good luck, bad luck, feng shui. Her amorphous set of beliefs showed me you can pick and choose the qualities of your philosophy, based on what works for you.

Amy Tan

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Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.

John Quincy Adams

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Lev Nussimbaum was born in October 1905, the moment when the tolerant, haute capitaliste culture of Baku began to fall apart.

Tom Reiss

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Net neutrality sounds wonky and technical but is actually quite simple. It would keep the Internet as it has always been - cable and phone companies would remain mere gateways to all sites, rather than gatekeepers determining where users can go and what innovators can offer them.

Marvin Ammori

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I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

Michael Korda

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A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

Jared Harris

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I try and work out as often as possible. Since I travel very often, it becomes very difficult to have a daily work out routine, but I practice yoga every day or try and play some sport. Also, I am very aware of what suits my body in terms of food and exercise.

Deepika Padukone

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