David Mitchell Quotes

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Body
  • Individual
  • Self-Worth

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Life Story

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • House
  • Space
  • Individual

• My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.

  

  Cam
  • World
  • Different
  • Girl

• What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Done
  • Career
  • Year

• Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

  

  William R. Bradford
  • Men
  • Influence
  • Selfishness

• The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Home

• . . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

  

  Margaret Anderson
  • Life
  • Great

• Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

  

  Kathy Mattea
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Children
  • Pretty
  • Career

• Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Children
  • Experience