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.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I don't really go out at all.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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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.
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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.
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People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
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There are dodgy characters in Bitcoin. But there are dodgy characters in cash, too.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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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.
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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.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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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.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.
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The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.
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Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?
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I love to watch the movement of light on water, and I love to play in rivers and lakes, swimming or canoeing. I am fascinated by people who work with water - fishermen, boatmen - and by a way of life that is dominated by water.
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A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
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Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.
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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.
