Michael Lehmann Quotes
I love 'Heathers,' and I loved doing that movie. I'm very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I'm happy.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
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Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Most Authors cringe and flatter and Fish for compliments. If they fail to get Applause, they say the World is a Scurvy Place and those who dwell therein a Dirty Lot: if they succeed, they give thanks to Nobody, saying they got only what their Meritt entitles them to. But I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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I always want the last line to be really good, which may sound silly, but I want it to be a last pleasing line.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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I love 'Heathers,' and I loved doing that movie. I'm very proud of it, so if it gets brought up, I'm happy.
