Elvis Mitchell Quotes
Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
Quotes to Explore
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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We need to tackle energy poverty.
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Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.
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I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
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I have a hard time understanding how cutting the program in our country that provides healthcare to working families by $800 billion can be classified as mercy.
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We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.
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Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
