Mike Leigh Quotes
I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often. 'Part 2 - Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich' PBS Newshour (27 June 2017)
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We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.
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One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.
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The best thing about writing speculative fiction is the opportunity to satirize the whole wide world. The America in 'A Better World' isn't ours, but it's pretty close, so I could lampoon everything from partisan politics to the cult of celebrity to our general disaffection. To me, all that is the point.
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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.
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It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
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I know, that trends and all of those things and formulae that calculate what audiences want to see and what audiences don't want to see and various other demographic demarcations are the eccentric and ludicrous prerogative of Hollywood studios. But out there in the real world - by which I mean the rest of the world where we make truthful organic films, independent films unimpeded by interference - it's not about all those sort of calculating what is commercial. It's about wanting to say things and saying them in a way that will get through to people.
