Mike Nichols Quotes
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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Life is too short to be on a diet.
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As a presidential candidate, Mr. Trump is going to get tough questions from the press and has to answer them.
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Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.
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I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
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I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).
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You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.
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We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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So many of the things we are doing right now as a country are things that lead to loss of a country. I leave you with this thought and challenge any historian, no mater who you are where you are. You show me a country that ever met its demise while as a nation it was honoring the one true God. You won't find it. Let's keep this country alive.
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We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.
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I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
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A Christian life is an unending engagement on the battlefield.
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A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't. Persons
