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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Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
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I've basically grown up in America. Even if Iran were to change, I wouldn't see myself moving there. That feeling exists for my mother and people of her generation. They say, 'Hopefully, one day.'
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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
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Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
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There will come a time when the human race and super intelligence will coexist to create a richer and happier life.
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I was the epitome of rags to riches.
