Lenny Abrahamson
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When I went to Venice Film F... KAYA SCODELARIO BOB BROWN I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort o... JULIE LONDON I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined. KATE FLEETWOOD SARA SHEPARD I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my ... TALULAH RILEY So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly c... JENNY HOLZER When I saw 'Legally Blonde' on Broadway, I rang my agent and said 'I want to be seen for... SHERIDAN SMITH ANTONY STARR I did get to go to the Olympic trials in '88 and '92. I was 7th and 11th, so I didn't pl... DOT JONES Three and a half years in L.A. was enough for me. I would love to go back for short bursts if a film... DARREN BOYD For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's wei... SAMPHA I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this &#... RACHEL HURD-WOOD I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the musi... RAEKWON When I did 'Frantic,' I didn't have a lot of experience. My English was so bad, and I di... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER When I first went to Stevens Point, I never thought I'd ever be close to the NBA. I didn't e... TERRY PORTER I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school. CHARLES S. DUTTON KRISTEN STEWART MATT GROENING I really hope for more Broadway. I didn't think I was going to love it this much. I would love t... DREW SEELEY No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to... PARMINDER NAGRA I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind o... GURINDER CHADHA I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do. CHARLIE SIMPSON I didn't have that typical high school experience of feeling ashamed of who I was. I once wore a... AYA CASH There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I d... DAVE LOMBARDO I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for ... REBECCA MAKKAI I'd love to go back to Broadway if there was a place for me there. I would absolutely go back; i... BROOKE ELLIOTT PETER HIGGS HARLAND WILLIAMS CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so muc... T. J. PERKINS EMMA WATSON DIANNA AGRON ELLEN DEGENERES BRIT MORIN Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don&#... ABEL KORZENIOWSKI For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I... TAYA KYLE MAUREEN FORRESTER JOHN HENCH Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of act... JACOB BATALON I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person. FLORENCE WELCH DANIEL TOSH With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was don... ALEX WINTER It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind.... BILL MEDLEY HUGH LAURIE I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't... KATE ASHFIELD I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon busi... DON AMECHE I would say I'm very surprised it went down the way it did. I thought it was a possibility, but ... MATT HASSELBECK The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. ... JADE JONES PETE TOWNSHEND I didn't go onto 'The Voice' thinking I was going to go country. I went into it with an ... CASSADEE POPE MARY BALOGH The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while. CLAIRE FORLANI After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br... WALLACE SHAWN NORTON JUSTER ELLIE GOULDING BILL GATES I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm a... TAHYNA TOZZI STELLA MCCARTNEY I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even t... ADAM RICKITT I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was n... EVAN DAUGHERTY I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn... BURN GORMAN Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hau... C. THOMAS HOWELL I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-b... F. GARY GRAY I didn't expect to get it at all. I just went along to the audition for the experience. DANNII MINOGUE GENE KELLY PAUL AUSTER I was really interested in acting and thought secretly I could do it but didn't tell anyone. It ... JOE ALWYN I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was ... ELIZABETH PENA CHARLES KURALT The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was ... ADA YONATH BRAD PITT Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK RINGO STARR I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put o... ANNE ROBINSON I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. B... SADIE FROST AARON NEVILLE SEAN BEAN JOHN KRASINSKI I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, ... BARRY JENKINS SANDRA CISNEROS ELVIS PRESLEY I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are ... SABRINA LLOYD
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I can just remember being broke, wondering if I had any talent - really wondering whether this was a... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I was a bachelor for a long time, and I got into all these really lazy habits work-wise. I'd jus... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to ... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I can think back to being four or five and not wanting to sit at the kids' table because I thoug... LENNY ABRAHAMSON In something like 'Frank,' which is a comedy, albeit a strange and emotional one, you can ab... LENNY ABRAHAMSON A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with. LENNY ABRAHAMSON I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor peopl... LENNY ABRAHAMSON For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene. LENNY ABRAHAMSON When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we t... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I am an unusual Irishman. I'm probably Ireland's third most famous Jewish son. LENNY ABRAHAMSON I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about ... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real int... LENNY ABRAHAMSON Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system. LENNY ABRAHAMSON I'm interested in discontinuities and interruptions, people having to rewrite the narrative of t... LENNY ABRAHAMSON The thing about America - it's different everywhere, but visually, it's amazing to shoot in ... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I think, as directors, they may recognize, more than the rest of the body of filmmakers, exactly wha... LENNY ABRAHAMSON It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't kn... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls... LENNY ABRAHAMSON If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped a... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I'm looking for an intensity of focus. It's a bit like tuning a guitar string. You tighten a... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I love the cinema, but I'm not a fascist about it. I've had some of my best experiences watc... LENNY ABRAHAMSON That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding i... LENNY ABRAHAMSON Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things. LENNY ABRAHAMSON I'm just disappointed in the whole match. CRAIG ABRAHAMSON I just have to get as ready as I can be for that match. CRAIG ABRAHAMSON I've got a lot of confidence coming in, and now let's see what we can do with it. I wanted to start ... CRAIG ABRAHAMSON I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above me to ... CRAIG ABRAHAMSON We asked ourselves : If Crate & Barrel built a hotel, what would it look like. JIM ABRAHAMSON Disorder created connections──that is, resonance. ERIC ABRAHAMSON LENNY BRUCE LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY KRAVITZ Wh... LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. LENNY ALCIVAR I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ago... LENNY ALCIVAR Lynn Swann respects the historic legacy of labor in Pennsylvania. Our message is simple: roll back t... LENNY ALCIVAR He has said to the senator he disagrees with him. He believes he's going to be a good ally in the Se... LENNY ALCIVAR LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE Intimidation doesn't last very long. LENNY WILKENS LENNY KRAVITZ It's a Big Ten team. Ohio State always had traditionally a great team. This year they're a bit down ... LENNY BERNSTEIN LENNY BRUCE LENNY KRAVITZ Intimidation doesn't last very long. LENNY WILKENS LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY BRUCE LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ I'd like to get to nationals and embody the message of first (place). LENNY HAAS LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE Basically, we are rebuilding the car, using the same formula that we used last year. We are just doi... LENNY BURKE There's a line in the movie 'Voices' that says, 'Everything you want is in Hoboken.' That's kind of ... LENNY LUIZZI LENNY KRAVITZ Going into the tournament, we recognized the considerable parity of the top four teams in the confer... LENNY BERNSTEIN LENNY BRUCE We become genuine Leaders when we live genuinely with Integrity LENNY SOARES The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve . . . because I don't think you s... LENNY WILKENS LENNY KRAVITZ A Leader must see his profession as a Vocation rather than a Duty. LENNY SOARES LENNY BRUCE It does feel good. We've had all those ties and losses but we played well. Byron is getting better a... LENNY GLASSTETTER You can't walk up 52nd Street and see the Three Deuces or the Onyx Club and see where Bee Bop was bo... LENNY KAYE LENNY BRUCE I let them know that I believe that they can succeed, and I'm going to be there to help them. LENNY WILKENS So my philosophy becomes that I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no contro... LENNY WILKENS I think that you have to communicate with people, and I think that respect is a two-way street. LENNY WILKENS We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams. LENNY WILKENS If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head agains... LENNY WILKENS If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again. LENNY WILKENS I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had. LENNY WILKENS It is by Raising others up that you will Rise LENNY SOARES LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY BRUCE LENNY BRUCE It's fun, but it would be more fun to be on the other side and going to the playoffs. LENNY HARRIS I thought it was going to hook so I tried to give it a little English at the plate, and it kind of s... LENNY HARRIS A.J. is a great guy inside. He's got a great heart. He was a great teammate. He wants to win. That's... LENNY HARRIS This is something A.J. has to fix. You have to talk to people individually; you don't just bring dow... LENNY HARRIS Me and Justin were in the locker room talking and we were just reminiscing about it seems like just ... LENNY JEFFERSON It was a good effort by everybody, the bench players stepped up. LENNY JEFFERSON Justin and I were in the locker room today reminiscing about being freshmen. We didn't want our care... LENNY JEFFERSON It was a good effort by everyone. We wanted to get on top early and then make sure they had no chanc... LENNY JEFFERSON We set the tone early so there was no chance of them coming back. LENNY JEFFERSON I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several ti... LENNY HENRY See, the thing is, when you do a press day, sometimes you're tired in the morning and you say things... LENNY HENRY Atlantic kept up their level of excitement. ... Artists like John Coltrane -- these are mythical art... LENNY KAYE (Atlantic) has had an amazing ability to adapt with the changing times while keeping a standard of a... LENNY KAYE It seems like we just got here, and now it's one loss and it's all over. We want to play deeper into... LENNY JEFFERSON We knew Justin was out; we knew what we had to do. LENNY JEFFERSON We did a good job on the threes. We gave them different looks: double down, fake double down and wea... LENNY JEFFERSON Tristan was great, but if [Thompson] got by, the rest of the team was there to help. LENNY JEFFERSON We're ready to play when we come up from the locker room. We jump on teams and sustain it. LENNY JEFFERSON When Secretary (Tom) Ridge was here, everyone was saying we were rated triple-A. LENNY KLOMPUS She took a lot of time with it because it is an important project for her. She likes recognizing emp... LENNY KLOMPUS The people themselves feel they are part of something and they are helping to make something and are... LENNY KLOMPUS The kids play their hearts out. They always try their hardest. LENNY SELENSKI It's always good to get a touchdown. It's always good to not get blanked. LENNY SELENSKI We just started to revert back to our instincts. LENNY ROYBAL I think they just tried too hard. LENNY ROYBAL We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to l... LENNY ROYBAL We're closer to finding out how the pieces fit together. But it's still a work in progress. We're st... LENNY ROYBAL We sort of got behind and had to play catch-up, but we hit a lot of free throws and I think that's w... LENNY ROYBAL Other states have found that younger hunters are safe hunters. LENNY REES The Bay Area is the birthplace of much of the business sector's innovation. We need to apply that sa... LENNY MENDONCA Bay Area public services have not kept pace with demands of our economy and growing population. Free... LENNY MENDONCA If we're growing and we're not producing the talented workers we need in the schools, and it's too e... LENNY MENDONCA Bay Area elected officials are weather-makers and must work to improve the business climate. It's a ... LENNY MENDONCA We don't have big chain stores. The biggest chain we have is CVS. Parking is at a premium in Hoboken... LENNY LUIZZI There are two or three swimmers here who have a lot of potential, who I can see doing very well. For... LENNY KRAYZELBURG I really like the sport for what it teaches. It is important for them to understand the challenges. LENNY KRAYZELBURG LENNY KRAVITZ LENNY KRAVITZ We saw a lot of new, fresh collectors' blood at auctions starting at the beginning of the year with ... LENNY SIMMS When you come up to an election year people start holding on to their money because they can't count... LENNY SIMMS It's given us an opportunity to play golf 12 months out of the year, which is unusual for northern I... LENNY SHAW They can play any time they want, and just match scorecards. We don't put in wind, so the conditions... LENNY SHAW It's a fictitious one called Devil's Island that is ridiculously difficult. LENNY SHAW McEnroe is what he is. You never know what you're going to get, except you know it's going to be fun... LENNY SIMPSON I remember it like it was yesterday. Nine years of age, Chattanooga, Tennessee. We were entered to t... LENNY SIMPSON My first taste of it was 9 years of age. Obviously, (I dealt with it) the day I was born because of ... LENNY SIMPSON He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playin... LENNY SIMPSON She got a lamb into the sale her first year, when she was 8 years old. I think she was about half th... LENNY SIMPSON I told him he ought to spread things out a little bit, instead of getting two in the same show. Espe... LENNY SIMPSON If you want it, you've got to give it. LENNY WILKENS We knew it was a lot of pressure, but it never bothered her, never shook her. We knew then she was s... LENNY WHITE I think it was about 30 days after she started taking formal lessons. She actually started sight rea... LENNY WHITE Nothing rattles him. He's just a leader. Any kind of situation, he's pretty much ready for it. LENNY WALLS It really doesn't limit you from doing anything. It just doesn't allow you to overextend, which I do... LENNY WALLS It's nothing to get hyped about. I should be in practice in a couple days. LENNY WALLS It's already behind me. It's not how you start, it's how you finish. LENNY WALLS Don't count 2-4 (Bailey's number) being out just yet. LENNY WALLS I know what he's going through. His isn't as bad as mine. His slipped out and popped back in. My sho... LENNY WALLS We've been looking forward to Miami and this opening game all off-season. It's what we talk about. S... LENNY WALLS I will regain my 'A' game. I will keep going. LENNY WALLS I thought he showed he was ready. We were fortunate to have athletic safeties like Sam Brandon. LENNY WALLS That little sequence right before halftime, we really fed off that. We thought that if we kept up th... LENNY SMITH We've been dangling that medal in front of the town for three years. It's time we brought it home. LENNY SMITH These kids, they stayed the course. They played hard for us all year long and they were rewarded for... LENNY SMITH This was another step forward for this team to be able to win a game with Matt Bird on the bench for... LENNY SMITH Justin has really gotten his confidence going right now. You can see it when he makes a shot that he... LENNY SMITH With this team, what you see is what you get. We?re playing with a lot of confidence right now, prob... LENNY SMITH As regulators direct financial institutions to conduct vendor risk due diligence analysis and make p... LENNY SMITH FIS provides a host of services designed to help our clients manage their businesses. One way we can... LENNY SMITH At FIS, it is our pledge to support and maintain the technology we provide. As regulators direct fin... LENNY SMITH They made the plays when they needed to and came up with the stops. We didn't execute and we didn't ... LENNY SMITH Back to back we face two of our biggest rivals. We have to come out wrestling a lot better. LENNY BERNSTEIN We weren't offensive. That was the main thing. We didn't give ourselves a chance. We weren't daring.... LENNY BERNSTEIN He's certainly built a lot of confidence throughout the year. I think he's had some milestones to ge... LENNY BERNSTEIN At the beginning of the year, he knocked off a guy that was top 20 and then he lost the very next ma... LENNY BERNSTEIN I don't think it's out of the ordinary because revenue estimating is always difficult. LENNY GOLDBERG These vetoes basically say to these people that they can flout the law without repercussions, ... Or... LENNY GOLDBERG
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I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite ... 
My first film was a big dud at the box office, and my second film did decently. I used to wonder how... 
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If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rathe... 
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk abo... 
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
My first car was a Holden Commodore station wagon. I can't remember much more about it than that... 
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But... 
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The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be grati... 
In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin... 
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it w... 
It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. Bu... 
There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in a... 
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Social life was different for me in college. I didn't go to as many parties as my friends did. I... 
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did. 
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My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe. 