Mike Leigh Quotes

I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's their prerogative - enough is enough; it doesn't mean a thing to me. But I haven't got any money, so, you know, I just keep on working.

Mike Leigh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

John Edgar Wideman

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I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the same feeling towards the characters that I do.

Michael Hirst

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The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.

Ambrose Burnside

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I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

Alyson Hannigan

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I always watch the French news on the Internet while having my breakfast.

Sigrid Agren

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I like the notion of theater as recreational.

Tom Stoppard

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I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

Dennis Quaid

WorkLoveMoneyPersonalityPolitics

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

Christopher Nolan

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I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

Claudia Schiffer

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I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

Bobbie Ann Mason

WordsMePlayImportantLikeSounds

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Anthony Kiedis

TimeBalanceHappyMeBetterYou

Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.

Anthony Trollope

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