Mike Nichols Quotes

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

Mike Nichols

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ComedyPowerfulThoughBrutal

I'm very organic in nature with my creativity. It just kind of wraps around me, or it's a moment I have, a click of inspiration. It's never calculated.

Jeremy Scott

NatureMomentCreativityMeKind

Running is very spiritual for me. It is therapeutic; it clears my mind and helps me to focus.

Amy Locane

FocusSpiritualMindMeRunning

I find Mormons adorable.

Trey Parker

FindAdorableMormons

I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.

Tom Scholz

ListeningGuitarKnowHimGangBig

Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.

Tom Douglas

HomeTimeKingSweetWorldPig

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

MeWhiteOldGuyStillWho

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.

Mohammed Morsi

KindInsultAgainstProphetOurAny

Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.

Jason Ritter

FriendPeopleMeFakeRelationships

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.

Donald Miller

ReadingBoringWriteFirstRight

I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.

Christopher Buckley

I AmPoliticalThinkerEvenMuchAm

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

Antonio Munoz Molina

BookBetterFairPrizeWriterThan

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.

Allen Klein

HumorSeptemberAnyWereAfter

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