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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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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In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.
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My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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I have to get out of bed every day to make something happen.
