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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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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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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Religion is using everything for God.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
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In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
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It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
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Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.
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I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.
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A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't. Persons
