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"Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it."
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"Control your thoughts to define your life."
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Personal Development

"You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere."
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"Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock."
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"The quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time."
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"I'm not worried. I'm in control."
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"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."
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"There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension."
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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
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"It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive."
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Explore more quotes by Mike Figgis

"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."
Actor

"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
Actor

"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
Media

"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
Desire

"I want the score to have a really big voice."
Voice

"When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer."
Music

"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."
Time

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

"I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument."
Work

"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."
History
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