David Mitchell Quotes
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
Quotes to Explore
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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Nearly all edible seaweeds - or 'sea vegetables,' as they ought technically to be called - belong to one of three broad groups: green, red and brown algae.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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I like inviting people over in the evening, because I don't like moving anywhere.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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More and more, as civilization develops, we find the primitive to be essential to us. We root into the primitive as a tree roots into the earth. If we cut off the roots, we lose the sap without which we can't progress or even survive. I don't believe our civilization can continue very long out of contact with the primitive.
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My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
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There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
