It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I … - Mike Nichols

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[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

Mike Nichols

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

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There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.

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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

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Any good movie is filled with secrets.

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There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

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No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

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Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

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No actor is a success unless he feels inside himself, as long as he lives, that he is good.

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The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so really.

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[It is] a historic step toward eliminating the shameful practice of racial discrimination in the selection of juries.

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First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules. And the idea of using a controlled substance to end somebody's life is something I don't agree with. I can see the idea of using controlled substances to ease somebody's pain. That makes sense.

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