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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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
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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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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.
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I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.
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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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This is not very important what I'm doing. I'm just proving something.
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Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.
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I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, "How can I make a career?" And so when they make their first film, they make it thinking, "Well, this'll be the one that gets me to the place where I can make the second film the way I want to make it, and that'll get me to the place where I can make $100 million on the third film." And I thought, "Well, if I put sustainability at the bottom of my priority list, then what opportunities is that going to free me up to pursue?" And that's what I've always done.
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If you go into a tournament thinking that you're not going to do anything, you might as well not be there because you won't achieve anything.
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I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.
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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.
