David Mitchell Quotes
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
Barret Oliver
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
Tamora Pierce
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
E. Stanley Jones
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I don't really go out at all.
Jack Kerouac
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. Flay
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
Aaron Paul
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
J. G. Ballard
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
Zhang Yimou
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
Patrick M. Byrne
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
Karen Morley
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
Nadia Comaneci
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
Mal Peet
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
Sabine Lisicki
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
Jack Lemmon
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If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.
Phoebe Robinson
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If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive.
Aliko Dangote
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Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.
H. Rider Haggard
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No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.
Dennis Prager
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Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.
David Mitchell