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Mike Nichols Quotes

Chicago is not a very fashion-driven place. Nobody says, 'Oh, you've got to come see these fabulous people!' Nobody cares.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: german
Birth: November 6, 1931 - November 19, 2014

Topics

People You Place Nobody Chicago See

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

Enough Own Admiration Perfectionist

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

Melissa Etheridge

Life I Am Write Wherever Happens Am

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

Fun People Go Going Faces Knew

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of glucose biscuits in my village is now selling cellphones.

Simplicity Selling Place Village Now

George III's ability to step in and out of his role fed stories of commoners chancing upon a sturdy gentleman by the wayside who later turned out to be the king.

Step King Gentleman Ability Out Who

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

Fun People Have Fun Think Thinking

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.

Medical Problem Speech Recognition

Wear things that make you happy because, I think, that really shines through. If you feel uncomfortable in something, then I don't think it ever really works.

Poppy Delevingne

Happy Think Feel Uncomfortable You

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

Peter Hollingworth

Good Attitude Truth Time Discipline

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.

Work Best Say Actor Lucky Up

I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.

Mother Eye Know She First Right

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Children School Years Little Been

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