Michael Lehmann Quotes

You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.

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• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  

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• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

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• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

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• I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.

  

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• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  

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• During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
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• A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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• What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

  

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• I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

  

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• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

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• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

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• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

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• This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

  

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• Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

  

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• I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

  

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• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

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• And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?

  

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• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

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• I love working with actors, and it's great that I'm an actor myself. I know how I like to be directed and how I like to be talked to.

  

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• You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.

  

  Michael Lehmann
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  • Happy
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