Elvis Mitchell Quotes
It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the third yeoman on a 'Star Trek' episode.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
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Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
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Sleazy people are always in this business. They run the business, pretty much. There are a lot of barracudas.
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It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the third yeoman on a 'Star Trek' episode.
