Mike Leigh Quotes

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

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• We are driven to win a title. We want to see that day when everyone celebrates because we finally brought a title home to Northeast Ohio. It's what we want, what LeBron wants, what all of us want.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Home
  • Day
  • Win

• I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Literature
  • Pride
  • Books

• We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

  

  Barry Schuler
  • Difference
  • Equal
  • U.S.

• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Change
  • Control

• 'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Work
  • Way
  • Working

• When my son was growing up, I was always guilty, no matter what I did. Make decisions and be happy with the decisions you've made. I tell myself, in the long run, it's the love, the quality of relationships that you have with your family, your friends and giving back to the community that matters.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • People
  • Talent
  • Admire

• I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Play
  • Teacher
  • Student

• The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Fear
  • Boy

• The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Die

• If you're doing something like scheduling utility payments to come through your debit card or out of your personal checking account, that's perfectly fine. But there are much safer ways to handle situations with debt collectors. You can send a money order overnight, or wire the cash to them.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Money

• Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Proud

• And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

  

  David Gest
  • People

• In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Business
  • Stop

• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Women
  • Family

• Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • People
  • Strong
  • Respect

• In the beginning when I sat next to Tom Brokaw on the 'Today' show, the stories I was interested in were those having to do with women and children and learning and health. In those days, 25 to 30 years ago, that was called soft news, and not in a nice way.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • Women
  • Children
  • Today

• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Long
  • Friends

• Even when I played in little league as a kid, I liked making friends, but I didn't want to be there, really.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Friends

• It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Comics
  • Published

• Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Economic
  • Patriot
  • Barack

• I just know that making 'Beast' was an amazing experience. It was my first feature, it was the director's first feature, and every day, you're just trying to do good work and learn.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.

  

  Mike Leigh