Mike Leigh Quotes
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I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.
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We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.
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Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.
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I have no interest in ever coming out. I’m just trying to make the pictures look good; I’m not into trying to make myself look good. And besides, it’s a pretty safe bet that the reality of me would be a crushing disappointment to a couple of 15-year-old kids out there.
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Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
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I'm only a poor corrupt official.
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like the female throughout the world, who by quiescence always overcomes the male. And quiescence is a form of humility.
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I don't really go to clubs so I don't know what sounds are made there.
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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
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I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.
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There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
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It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
