Elvis Mitchell Quotes
You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.
Quotes to Explore
-
As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
-
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
-
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
-
Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
-
But I think we need the international market.
-
I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
-
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
-
The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
-
I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
-
I love cars, but I love bikes more.
-
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
-
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
-
Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
-
I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
-
It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel that I need to push myself harder to pay back for all the good fortune that I have received.
-
I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
-
A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
-
It's always about the music, never about anything else.
-
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
-
The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
-
For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.
-
What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
-
I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.
-
You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white men.
