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Secondary words, primary secrets

By Emily on November 24, 2014

I loved this quote from the New York Times’ fascinating obituary for director Mike Nichols:

“I’ve always been impressed by the fact that upon entering a room full of people, you find them saying one thing, doing another and wishing they were doing a third,” he said in a 1965 interview with the weekly newspaper The National Observer, now defunct. “The words are secondary and the secrets are primary. That’s what interests me most.”

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Posted in writing | Tagged interior lives, Mike Nichols, narrative, obituary

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