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Mike Nichols Quotes

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Great Experience Me American Alive

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

Jennifer Lawrence

Love Character Crazy Play Want Head

It's strange: I've done so many things up until I did 'Obvious Child,' including writing children's books and making 'Marcel the Shell.' To me, the through-line is incredibly clear: it all comes from wanting to be connected to my own inner voice and not wanting to be on somebody else's agenda if that means that I can't be myself.

Children Myself Child Me Writing

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Suffering Own Only Glorious Thing

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

Forward Push You Cards Go Dealt

I always support anyone who I think is dope, female-wise. Whereas a lot of females are scared of other females.

Support Think Dope Always Scared

Unless taught otherwise, children are the most selfish, oblivious little Philistines on the planet. They have no family, no job, no responsibilities, and nothing but time to think about their gluttonous, sticky selves. We should be teaching them to take some focus off of themselves and onto how they can best serve/treat others.

Family Children Time Best Focus Job

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.

Writing Over Existence Songs Very

My wife says I have a frontal lobe issue. Your frontal lobe controls your danger response, like, 'Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this.'

Wife Doing Danger Response Your

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Doing Buildings I Can Way See Up

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Work Time Lie People You Down

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

Practice Book End Lesson Will Never

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

Mario J. Molina

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