Joseph Mitchell Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and meet the fans, nine out of 10 times if they're not wearing some sort of horror shirt, they're wearing a shirt with a metal band on it.
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It was so much fun playing simple American bluegrass. I got to meet Doc Watson.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.
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I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.
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I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.
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Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.
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I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.
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Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.
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I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
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Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!
