Mike Bartlett Quotes
Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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Feminists are often asked whether pornography causes rape. The fact is that rape and prostitution caused and continue to cause pornography. Politically, culturally, socially, sexually, and economically, rape and prostitution generated pornography; and pornography depends for its continued existence on the rape and prostitution of women.
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I met Taylor Lautner and Jonah Hill at the 'Today Show.' That was pretty cool.
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To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?
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For the women in California, they're just downtrodden because they're so gorgeous here. Every hot cheerleader comes to California to make it. The men don't want to get married, they're lazy lions. Matthew McConaughey is their poster boy so they can procreate and live on the beach in the trailer and have kids and have money and be hedonistic.
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I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.
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I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.
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Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
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If you sense there must be more, there is more.
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You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.
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Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".
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I think if you put a smile on people's faces, they give that back to you.
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Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.
