Mitch Leigh Quotes
It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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My head was always in books.
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I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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I study to learn, to be an educated person.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.
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Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.
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It's still word of mouth that is going to make or break a show, and while critics can't help a show, they can hurt it.
