Elvis Mitchell Quotes
Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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The good thing about the Anvil school of filmmaking was that it was fly by the seat of your pants. There was no safety net.
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Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.
