Mike Figgis Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
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Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
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All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.
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No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
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There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
