Elvis Mitchell Quotes
I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Sony is the coolest studio. They are really amazing. I think part of it comes from they're not an American corporation. They don't work by quite the same rules. And their studio heads have a lot of autonomy.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
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We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.
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One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
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I saw Berry in concert a couple of times in the late '70s - and like almost every North American male of a certain age, I went because a friend was hired by Berry that very day to be part of the legend's backup band.
