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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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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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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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
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I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
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The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.
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Family isnt about blood relationships, its about the meaning behind them. I relize now that sharing chromosoms is not the only way to having a family, its about the friendship behind it.
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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.
