Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.

Lenny Abrahamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

Joan Collins

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'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

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Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.

Ana Navarro

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I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.

John Ridley

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Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.

Stafford Cripps

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It's a good challenge as an actor to express feelings without saying too many words.

Travis Fimmel

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I represent the 9th Congressional District of Georgia. I'm their voice.

Tom Graves

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I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

Rupert Everett

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If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy women who either go to work or pretend to, and want office suits or slip dresses they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and others. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

Michael Shnayerson

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I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

Mindy Kaling

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Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Joyce Meyer

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Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching.

Bob Fosse

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