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What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.


Mike Birbiglia

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MIKE DITKA For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to proje...
MIKE NORTON As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
MIKE ROGERS We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
MIKE ROWE I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I ...
MIKE MYERS Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those Ja...
MIKE MYERS Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy...
MIKE PENCE The Safe and Affordable Food Labeling Act aims to address unnecessary impediments to feeding the wor...
MIKE POMPEO I keep coming back to it, over and over - adultery and cheating. It's the most interesting probl...
MIKE NICHOLS What is real is that adultery destroys tens of thousands of families every year across America. What...
MIKE PENCE He once had his toes amputated so he could stand closer to the bar.
MIKE HARDING Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommun...
MIKE DEWINE