Mitch Leigh Quotes
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I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
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When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.
