Mike Leigh Quotes
It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
Quotes to Explore
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
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Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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Is now the time to legalize prostitution?
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God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
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There have been many great performers, but only four great stylists-Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Man is to man either a god or a wolf.
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I have as many pairs of sneakers as I have shoes.
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Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.
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I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I'm standing out because I realize who I really am.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I find it is a bad habit to look at social media before bed, so I try to read something on paper - not on my phone - before I go to bed.
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Civilization means conforming to a standard of behavior that may not seem natural to us.
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.
