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.Mike Leigh
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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.
Aaron Spelling -
My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
Garry Shandling -
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.
Eden Robinson -
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.
Lajos Egri -
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy -
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.
Olivia Colman
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Karl Kraus -
Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
G. Edward Griffin -
Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
Rain -
The truth sustains me.
Pat Nixon -
I am a committed European; a united Europe is Romania's future.
Victor Ponta
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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.
Halima Aden -
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.
Randy Newman -
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
Sam Rayburn -
The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
No, the serpent did notSeduce Eve to the apple.All that's simplyCorruption of the facts.Adam ate the apple.Eve ate Adam.The serpent ate Eve.This is the dark intestine.The serpent, meanwhile,Sleeps his meal off in Paradise-Smiling to hearGod's querulous calling.
Ted Hughes -
I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.
Marianne Faithfull
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The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
Paul Krugman -
I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
Gareth Gates -
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.
Lisa See -
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.
Mike Leigh