M. Leighton Quotes

Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.

M. Leighton

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Words
  • Government
  • Military

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Scary

• Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Matter
  • Egg
  • Duck

• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Poetry

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Live
  • Interesting

• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Earth
  • Justice
  • Violence

• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Mind
  • She
  • Trust

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Morning

• I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Star
  • Pop

• I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • People
  • Myself
  • Mentoring

• Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Different
  • Me
  • Hand

• The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.

  

  Geneva Carr
  • Work

• It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Thoughts
  • Feelings
  • Negative

• I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Career

• I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'

  

  Jason Priestley
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

  

  Amy Sherald
  • Father
  • Attitude

• Not all guys that look a certain way or dress a certain way or act a certain way are the same.

  

  M. Leighton
  • Guy
  • Looks
  • Dresses