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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What we can control is our readiness.
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
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Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
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I was the epitome of rags to riches.
