Elvis Mitchell Quotes
One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Hear the other side.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.
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ITEM: The Mike Tyson trial. The hotel in which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two firefighters die saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The firefighters' deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm than of two men saving...
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Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
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Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.
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Having said that, my absorption in nature, its healing powers, and omnipresence in ourselves and the world that surrounds us is, in itself, a form of ultimate worship.
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I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.
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One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.
