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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Use testimonial letters from satisfied customers at every opportunity.
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Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
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Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.
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You wouldn't take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their spirit; you'd move in close.
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...there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
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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.
