Mike Leigh Quotes
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.
Mike Leigh
Quotes to Explore
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
Zach Galifianakis
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
Kailash Kher
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Life is one long jubilee.
Ira Gershwin
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
Salman Rushdie
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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I've learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are. Today, I'm looking at life from a realistic point of view instead of the way I would want things to be.
Otis Williams
The Temptations
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
Eddie Redmayne
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We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
Sam Smith
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Most of us don't confront pure anything. What our life does involve is a whole lot of 60/40 and 70/30.
Taylor Sheridan
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
Candice Millard
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That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.
Laura Dern
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Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that in-forms the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.
Sam Keen
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
Joanne Rowling
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I am very happy with what I see. The grey, the not-so grey and the camouflaged That's life. One has to live with it.
Amitabh Bachchan
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Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit … Life, liberty, and thought - three persons in one substance, eternal, never-ending, and unceasing.
Kahlil Gibran