Michael Lehmann Quotes
I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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As far as the fouls go, we are not going to rely on anyone else to make the calls for us.
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
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Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
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I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.
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The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.
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The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
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Sometimes you forget where the heck you are but when you get on stage, you know by the look on the people's faces and the accent in their voices where you might be.
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I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.
