Mike Leigh Quotes
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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Batman is basically an ordinary guy who had something tragic happen to him when he was young.
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You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
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Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.
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Everyone has setbacks. I'm no different. I happen to have no legs. That's pretty much the fact.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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It's another terrible terrorist atrocity, ... Their fight is ours, our fight is theirs.
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We have no limits to our world. We're only limited by our imagination.
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I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.
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When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'
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I have to get out of bed every day to make something happen.
