David Mitchell Quotes
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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.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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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.
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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.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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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.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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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.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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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.
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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.
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My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.
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For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.
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But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.
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I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.
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I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me and get a better composer, actually won the Tony.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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The best complement I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don't notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the TV show happens.
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The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.
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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
