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Mike Figgis Quotes

I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: english
Birth: February 28, 1948

Topics

Live Art Theatre Performance Started

The CIA's drone campaign is extraordinarily effective, and the agency is getting progressively better at targeting senior leaders and disrupting their networks.

Better Senior CIA Leaders Agency

Once citadels of free expression and occasional revolutionary ideas, today many American colleges have endorsed political correctness.

John J. McLaughlin

Today Ideas Free American Political

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

Work Age Memories History Time Past

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Stella McCartney

Moment Losing Mum

Nothing like a bit of 'The Best of Times' before prancing around on stage.

Best Nothing Stage Like Around Bit

I can personally feel the relief myself in my audiences when I bring up Obama because there was a lot of anti-Obama sentiment out there before the capture of bin Laden.

Myself Feel I Can Capture Out Bring

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

Beauty Eyes Light Baby Die Never

In Jiu-Jitsu, every instinct you have wants to do everything but relax or breathe when someone's attacking you, and learning that takes a long time. I think that's why a lot of people stop at blue belt because it's really hard to do. It's hard to take that next step. It took me a long time.

Learning Time Blue Step Me Relax

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Father You Connection Your Sons

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

Home People Feel You Person Own

Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

War World Deep America Globalization

I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

Joy Think Anxiety You Sitting Right

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