Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes

Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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• I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Why
  • Day

• There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Nothing
  • Wrong
  • Eyebrow

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Power
  • Doubt
  • Values

• I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Nice
  • Found
  • Hiking

• According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Never

• I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Art
  • Beach
  • Walk

• My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something – some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Friend

• Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Life
  • Future
  • Die

• Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Experience
  • You
  • Wanted

• One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.

  

  Vin Scully
  • You
  • Player
  • Boy

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

  

  Chris Hayes

• You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Why
  • Home
  • Kids

• The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.

  

  John Sebastian
  • Band

• John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Great
  • Job
  • Service

• When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson

• It's fun to get away from myself for a while when I take on these roles that have very different personalities from my own. I get to say things I normally wouldn't say or act in ways I normally wouldn't act. After all, such roles are more challenging because you really have to immerse yourself in the character.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Different
  • Character
  • Fun

• A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.

  

  Joseph Lancaster
  • Education
  • System
  • Disposition

• Inner conflict is really fun to play because there's a lot going on, and the choices - when you've got a character with internal conflict - the choices you make have broader ramifications because they have inner ramifications and ramifications in the world.

  

  Silas Weir Mitchell
  • Character
  • Conflict
  • Inner