Mike Nichols Quotes

Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'

Mike Nichols

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I don't start fights, but sometimes I don't walk away from them. It hasn't happened in a long time, but it's happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult.

Jim Brown

TimeMyselfWalkControlStartLong

I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.

Joel Kinnaman

MyselfPerspectiveSpeakNever

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

John Oates

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I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

Angelina Jolie

WalkingProblemDownStreetBoyish

The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.

Michael Hastings

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Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

Stephen Henderson

MusicTogetherStartYouPlayNotes

In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts.

Stephen Karam

GoodTimeThinkChoiceRhythmOver

I just don't like the whole Hollywood thing.

Robert Carlyle

HollywoodWholeJustLikeThing

We are on the side of the Venezuelan people.

Michel Temer

PeopleSide

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

Joshua Bell

MusicGodTruthReligionMeYou

I am far more confident now because of the love people have showered on me. Their acceptance is what keeps me going.

Dhanush

LoveAcceptanceI AmPeopleMeNow

The reigning mythology of the Northwest is obviously nature, and the reigning mythology of the Northeast corridor is culture.

David Shields

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