Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

I think that I must be the only person who left California and headed to Dublin in pursuit of a career in film. The arrow is pointing in the other direction in most people's minds.

Lenny Abrahamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleDirectionThinkCareerPerson

The lion's share of what I listened to in the Eighties, what really affected me, was coming from Britain.

John Grant

LionMeComingShareEighties

I wanted to be in the FBI. I also wanted to be a pie salesman.

Shirley Temple

PieFBISalesmanWantedAlso

Historians will look back and say, 'Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.' Ford is not going to be remembered as a really significant foreign policy maker.

Robert Dallek

LookBackSayKindWillPresidency

When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.

Jared Padalecki

DoctorLawyerYouSayWantOut

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

Clayton M. Christensen

GodPowerSickGiftSpokenHealed

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

ManYouDownHimWithoutHold

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Allan Bloom

AgeImportantProtectReasonMost

The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don't have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes.

Phoebe Robinson

LearningGreatTimePeopleColor

Being told you're too small and never going to make it is an opinion. And it's a valid opinion, and it's something you take in your stride.

Timothy F. Cahill

OpinionSmallYouNeverTakeGoing

Many users of the GNU/Linux system will not have heard the ideas of free software. They will not be aware that we have ideas, that a system exists because of ethical ideals, which were omitted from ideas associated with the term 'open source.'

Richard Stallman

IdeasFreeWillSoftwareOpenAware

It is quite true that women like courage, and that boldness often goes a long way; but it is questionable whether with high-bred natures a subdued, quiet, and delicate manner does not go still further.

Richard Jefferies

WomenCourageLongQuietGoTrue

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

Mark E. Smith

WayOutUsedPsychicDrank

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