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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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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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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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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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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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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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 believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
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History clearly shows that governments that have tried to contain, regulate, or otherwise usurp capital have failed. It is the same with brainpower; no one has a monopoly on brainpower. Controlling brainpower is like herding cats. Brainpower creates capital, and capital fuels brainpower. It is a fundamental dynamic principle. Great ideas, solutions, insights, or inventions will develop only where they are nurtured and properly rewarded.
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I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
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One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?
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There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker
