Mike Figgis Quotes

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Mike Figgis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You just try and do as much variation and as much difference and as much as possible, so you put yourself out there to try anything, really. As long as you feel you're going to get something out of the experience, it's all worth it.

Jim Sturgess

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Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

Anna Howard Shaw

GovernmentNowTrueTwoThingsForm

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair.

Mercy Otis Warren

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I would say that the energy on set is always the energy of the director because he's the boss.

Stephanie Sigman

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I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Sonny Rollins

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I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

Tom Selleck

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White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Robin Morgan

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I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Ruth Rendell

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When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

Liu Xiang

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It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

Jared Cohen

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So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

Arthur Cayley

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What am I going to wear to the Emmys? Something with a tie.

Timothy Olyphant

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