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Mike Leigh Quotes

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: british
Birth: February 20, 1943

Topics

Life Habit Happy Be Happy You Want

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

Together Strangers Dream Cinema Dark

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Work Kindness Generosity Nice Movies

Being old is such a treat!

Shirley MacLaine

Treat Old Being

I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

Life Amazing Me Thought Surprise

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

Confidence You Lose Know Say Need

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

Lord Mountbatten

Sweet Crazy Aunt Charming Even

If you're the person whose problems were solved when you were born, your job is to try and help the people who aren't in that situation. It's very easy to say you're tired of political discussion when all of your problems are solved. I keep trying to think of it that way.

Job Tired People Problems Think You

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Ideas World Powerful See Us Because

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.

Birds Language Data Way Sound Real

I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it.

Music Think Anxiety Too Much Listen

In the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with.

You Know Want Sleeping Just Who

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Great Compassion Capable Within He

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