Mike White Quotes
Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.
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With a smaller setting, you have a lot more freedom and flexibility within a given moment, but not necessarily the velocity you have with a big band.
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Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.
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I can play the harmonica with my nose.
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You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast.
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My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.
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I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.
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You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one—at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.
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Girls' is a huge show, as far as buzz, and magazine covers, and getting a ton of copy, and awards. And yet I don't think the viewership is huge.
