Mike Leigh Quotes
One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.Mike Leigh
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
Nathan Lane -
China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
Barton Gellman -
I'm quite an advocate of free trade.
Najib Razak -
Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!
Tasha Smith
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The fantasy I've always had is that somehow I could move back in time. I would like to be there when Susan B. Anthony was dying, or someone like that. I would say to her, 'You won't believe what's going to happen.' And then I would tell her.
Gail Collins -
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde -
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Irwin Shaw -
In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.
Sam Kean -
I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food.
Idina Menzel -
The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
Bill Hicks -
I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.
Kevin Spacey -
The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it's sharing your creativity with people. There's no ambition to be famous. I couldn't care less about that.
Bryan Adams -
Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.
Nelly -
Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.
Hadewijch -
Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
Daisy Berkowitz -
I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view - which is what, along with my reason, entitles me to refute it. You can't rationally reject something until you know all about it.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.
Tony Evans -
One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.
Mike Leigh