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.Mike Leigh
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
Waris Dirie -
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
Dan Deacon -
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Hannah Arendt -
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!'
KaDee Strickland -
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson -
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
Barney Frank -
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.
Campbell Scott -
People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
Mae Whitman -
Social peace requires reciprocity.
Ralph Peters -
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.
Adam Davidson -
A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.
Zac Brown Band
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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
Edmund Husserl -
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.
Gaston Caperton -
We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.
Donald Trump -
Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
Donald Trump -
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.
Deepika Padukone -
A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.
Deborah Bull
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There's only truth and not truth. You're either very good or evil. I went back to my dorm and asked myself what I was. If your principles aren't grounded in absolute truth, you don't know what to think.
Christine O'Donnell -
In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.
Saint Augustine -
Being a full-time mother is one of the biggest jobs in the world; it's like another career for me. I love every moment of it - even the challenge of making cupcakes.
Darcey Bussell -
I do not want to belittle or be indifferent to the insults to our prophet (pbuh). I denounce insulting our prophet and announce that my heart is filled with his love. Yet, I refuse that his position should be employed for ignoble political gains. However, I protest being used as a tool.
Tawakkol Karman -
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.
Margaret Atwood -
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.
Mike Leigh