Mike Leigh Quotes
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.Mike Leigh
Quotes to Explore
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
Ralph Fiennes -
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
Nate Berkus -
There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy -
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
Maisie Williams -
A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
Narada Michael Walden -
If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
Larisa Oleynik -
Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
Zadie Smith -
From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
Olivia Wilde -
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
Randi Weingarten -
I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
Irvine Welsh -
She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.
Carly Patterson -
I don't cook. I love to eat. I love to go to the restaurants.
Irina Shayk -
I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
Nancy Jo Sales -
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.
Sally Quinn
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This is magic - the people of Broadway. There's nothing better!
Annaleigh Ashford -
But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.
Asa Hutchinson -
Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy.
Thomas Hobbes -
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
Malcolm Gladwell -
Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.
Mike Leigh