James A. Leach Quotes
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
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Lots of times I was out through forcing the game.
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When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
