Mike White quotes

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists. (Mike White)
I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person. View quote
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There's a victory in letting go of your expectations. View quote
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I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change. View quote
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Yeah, it's disturbing when someone has no self-awareness. View quote
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You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with. View quote
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To me, this is from a Buddhist perspective or whatever, sometimes people who are working out their political beliefs, they can rage against the man, and yet at the same time can be oblivious to their own way of stepping on the foot of the person right next to them. View quote
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I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis. View quote
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I feel like I know how to write plot. View quote
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There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television. View quote
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As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture. (Mike White)
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them. View quote
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I do idiosyncratic dramedies. View quote
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I used to have a road-rage issue. View quote
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I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my sense of reality, and it ends up feeling like an empty experience; there's funny stuff in it but I've lost the emotional connection to the characters because it's just so bananas. View quote
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I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. View quote
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I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder. View quote
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Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center. View quote
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I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help. View quote
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My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters. View quote
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I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school. (Mike White)
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. View quote
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To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully. View quote
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As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling. View quote
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My whole life I've been a seeker, searching for something. View quote
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