Joseph Mitchell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Every human is so layered. And 'Brain,' that theme is about - I'm just such a sensitive person, and I can pick up people's energies.
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Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
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I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.
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I think redheads have more fun than blondes.
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Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
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I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.
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God can take anything we have, as long as we give Him the glory for it. He can develop it and make it acceptable in music for the people.
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Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.
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With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.
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I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
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I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I try not to be cruel to foreigners, especially when they're that strung out.
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Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
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I'm just going to go out there, and if people want to put me on the front of their magazine or whatever, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine as well. I'm just going to go out there and make my music.
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Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!
