Mike Leigh Quotes
It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
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I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not come from people who had many options in their lives or many choices open to them. I was a girl in a family in which women were, as in society at large, very much second-class citizens. I did not see why I should accept these forced limitations without a fight. Being free to make my own choices thus became very important to me at an early age.
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It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.
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It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
