Mike Leigh Quotes
My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.
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I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
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I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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If you've got people around you that are like, 'Oh, you're so good,' this and that, it becomes unhealthy. My friends are like, 'You look like a doofus.' I'm like, 'Thank you. Thank you for that.' It keeps me grounded.
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I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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While the rest of the country is still talking about welfare reform, Texas is implementing it.
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Challenge yourself, jump off the deep end and learn to swim.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
