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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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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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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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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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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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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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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The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.
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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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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
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I feel powerless all the time, but I regain my energy by making a very small difference that won’t cost me much.
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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.
