Elvis Mitchell Quotes
'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.
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I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.
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Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
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If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.
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'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.
