David Mitchell Quotes
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
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On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.
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My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
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I needed to be there to support her, as a mother and as a human being, ... All mothers should pay attention to what she is saying.
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I think that I've just kind of found my niche, if that makes sense. I still write the same, but I feel like I've found what separates me, and I always try to stay in that when I write. It took me a long time to discover that, so I try to be protective.
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I was playing catch with the European audience.
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There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
