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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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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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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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 was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.
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Sometimes I wear red lipstick - it makes me feel sophisticated.
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I knew that part of the problem with sensitive issues is that, because they're uncomfortable to address, we have a hard time doing so honestly, if at all.
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The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.
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If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.
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I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
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If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.
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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.
