Mike Leigh Quotes
I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
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It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
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If you work with big stars, then they become the lead actors. It's not that I don't want to do films with big stars, but I would rather do the films where I get the title roles.
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We are not going to abandon Iraq.
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I first thought about doing a project about Anna Wintour and 'Vogue' when I read an article in 'New York Magazine' about the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Ball, the annual fundraising gala that Anna oversees. It created such a fascinating portrait that I couldn't help but be compelled.
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In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.
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New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.
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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little.
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I mean, artistic processes are all about making choices all the time, and the very act of making a choice is the distilling down and the getting to the core of what it is that you care about and what you want to say, really.
