Mike Leigh Quotes
I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.
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I haven't taken a break after marriage. Just two days after my marriage, I was in Chandigarh promoting my Punjabi film.
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I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.
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I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
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I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.
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When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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I grew up with KTSU, and that station gave me so much info about the pantheon of black sounds: reggae, gospel, blues, soul, hip hop, and mostly they played jazz. That was a major part of how I understood music.
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The sun was shining like a congratulation.
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When you're unhappy, you tend to play up, don't you?
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I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.
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I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.
