Jason Mitchell Quotes
To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing that book because I was interested in the lesser-known history of these black soldiers stationed off the coast of my hometown.
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
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As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.
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When I don't have a good time, it's usually because there's a stiffness that stifles creativity.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.
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I've been a single parent for a long time. It reminds me of being a waitress. As you walk back to the kitchen, requests come at you from all sides. You're doing the job of two - you have to be highly organised.
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You don't psych yourself up for these things, you do them... I'm acting for the audience, not for myself, and I do it as directly as I can.
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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
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To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.
