Mike Leigh Quotes
The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.
Quotes to Explore
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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As is always the way with pancakes, the first hotcake to come out of the pan will probably be a bit misshapen. Just scoff it, and carry on with the rest.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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My students often ask me, 'What is sociology?' And I tell them, 'It's the study of the way in which human beings are shaped by things that they don't see.'
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I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way than I ever have before.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.
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Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.
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Meaningful learning in a community requires both participation and reification to be present and in interplay. Sharing artifacts without engaging in discussions and activities around them impairs the ability to negotiate the meaning of what is being shared. Interacting without producing artifacts makes learning depend on individual interpretation and memory and can limit its depth, extent, and impact. Both participation and reification are necessary. Sometimes one process may dominate the other, or the two processes may not be well integrated. The challenge of this polarity is for communities to successfully cycle between the two.
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Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.
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The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.
