Jason Mitchell Quotes
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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Never doubt that one person can make a difference.
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I try to be as thoughtful as I can about everything that comes out of my mouth and not reinforce sexism.
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In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.
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I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
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Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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I wasn't exactly uncomfortable when I did my first comedy. I was just very aware of the risks; if you do a comedy that sucks, and you suck in it, then you won't get a chance to do it again.
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I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.
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I entered the Communist Party because its cause was just and I will leave it when it ceases to be just.
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We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.
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I was the epitome of rags to riches.
