David Mitchell Quotes

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

David Mitchell

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• Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Money
  • Day
  • Cooking

• Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Giving
  • Always
  • Grateful

• The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

  

  Dale Turner
  • Mistake
  • Better
  • Test

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Future
  • Present
  • Risk

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Help
  • Push

• I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Work
  • School
  • Together

• Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Agreement

• Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Laws

• I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Actress

• If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Politics

• Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Together
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Speech

• My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Success
  • Wish
  • Best

• For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Play
  • I Can
  • Far

• Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

  

  Neville Brody
  • Focus
  • Word
  • Written

• Whoever has approved this idea of order, of the form of European, of English literature, will not find it preposterous that the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past. And the poet who is aware of this will be aware of great difficulties and responsibilities.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Great
  • Past
  • Present

• In terms of my career, it began in earnest when I was living in Boston. I started doing my own films, working initially as an editor and editing assistant - briefly - at WGBH, as an editor on other people's movies, trying to get some experience under my belt, but eventually just doing my own short films, doing them my way.

  

  Brad Anderson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Experience

• It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.

  

  Baden Powell
  • Important
  • Wisdom
  • Competition

• That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Heart
  • Songwriting
  • Noise

• Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

  

  David Mitchell