Mike Figgis Quotes
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
Lance Burton -
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
Lake Bell -
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
J. J. Abrams -
We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
Carlos Castaneda -
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet -
What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
Olivia De Havilland
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I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.
Tatiana Maslany -
I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!
Rachel Brosnahan -
I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
Caleb Johnson -
The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
A. R. Rahman -
I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
Paige Davis -
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
Zig Ziglar -
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin -
Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
Jack Kemp -
But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
N. K. Jemisin -
I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never piss on a piece of stone at the fucking Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. I mean I know I'm a fucking crazy-ass but still.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure...
Bertrand Russell
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I have a night off on Halloween. It's Halloween for me every night. Let everybody else be Ozzy for the night. People go out dressed as me.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
Andrea Mitchell -
By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.
Jean-Marie Le Pen -
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
Dale Carnegie -
I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
Mike Figgis