Mike Leigh Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
Jack Canfield -
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
Jack Black -
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
Patricia Heaton -
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker Percy -
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
Ralph W. Sockman
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde -
I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
Natasha Little -
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson -
If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many people who can actually double me, so I do most of my stunts though.
Verne Troyer -
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
Iain Duncan Smith -
I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
Ferdinand Marcos
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
Kate McKinnon -
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson -
You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
Oprah Winfrey -
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
Ian Anderson -
Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
Carl Icahn
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I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.
Nigel Kneale -
I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
Sam Mendes -
Dull witted brooding people love to stuff themselves with quantities of heavy food, just like animals for fattening. Bubbly intellectual people love foods which stimulate the taste buds without overloading the belly. Profound, meditative people prefer neutral foods which do not have an assertive flavor and are not difficult to digest, and therefore do not demand too much attention.
Carl Friedrich von Rumohr -
You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
Tatiana Maslany -
But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.
Mike Leigh