David Mitchell Quotes
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Making music is fantastic.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
