Warren Mitchell Quotes
We have about four kids going in both sports. It's a shame they schedule this all so close together, but you do what you can.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
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My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army.
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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
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It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I started working on the movie [Edward Snowden], and then the more I read the documents themselves and saw just how sweeping and indiscriminate the intrusions into our privacy have been, it made me more aware.
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My dad grew up in Washington Heights. I grew up in New York in Manhattan. So we're purebred New Yorkers.
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We have about four kids going in both sports. It's a shame they schedule this all so close together, but you do what you can.
