David Mitchell Quotes
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.
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I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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Through geospatial technologies, you can plan a whole city sitting in your room.
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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When I write music, it's very strange: maybe it's normal, but I see things in songs in different colors.
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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My hair's naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
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Twenty years ago, Bed-Stuy was shorthand for a kind of chaos and disorder in which good people had no freedom to walk, shop, play, or just sit on the front steps and talk. It was too dangerous. But today, no more, thanks to the work of those who chose lives of service and danger to help others.
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Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
