Mike Leigh Quotes
I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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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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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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The truth sustains me.
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I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.
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My favorite part of modeling is backstage. Every day you work with different people, and as much as people learn about my story, I get to learn about theirs.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
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I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.
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First, you have to finish.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.
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Wisdom belongs in wonder.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.
