Mike Leigh Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
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I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff – in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn't grow up with it, and it's not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, 'Shall I run you a bath?' or 'Let's go to the pub, just us.'
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I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
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Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
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I always loved Little Anthony and the Imperials. They were like the precursors of the Temptations. I loved their music.
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Be yourself. The world worships the original.
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If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.
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What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been as they should have been, that it is time to stop and see how they truly are. The making known of malfeasance, whether by the arrest or surrender of the miscreant, or by one of those other forms of confession, flight or suicide, is important as a signal that the euphoria has been overdone. The stage of overtrading may well come to an end. The curtain rises on revulsion, and perhaps discredit.
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I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.
