Mike Leigh Quotes
Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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New York is my favorite city.
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What argument have they to persuade the young men to fight except merely in another squalid attempt to defend themselves against a redistribution of the international swag?
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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.
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It did not go without notice that Ayn Rand stood beside me as I took the oath of office in the presence of President Ford in the Oval Office. Ayn Rand and I remained close until she died in 1982, and I'm grateful for the influence she had on my life. I was intellectually limited until I met her.
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It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
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Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
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I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.
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My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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I try to get my workouts in in the morning.
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
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Resolve was never stronger than in the morning, after the night, when it was never weaker
