Donald G. Mitchell Quotes
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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I'm definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we'll all get our nails done or have waxes.
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Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!
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When DVD disappeared but before digital distribution came on strong, there were a few years where a movie that didn't get theatrical would just be gone.
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I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.
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I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.
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You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
