Mitchell Reiss Quotes
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
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Balder holds up a completely blank rune. Wyrd. The beginning and the end. Fate. I don't know what that means, but it's not doing anything to uncreep me.
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I've loved comics since I was very young, and I've always liked telling stories.
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If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so obsessive and so lonely to write that, in return for all this work, one would like a little self satisfaction. And that is never going to come, for the simple reason that I do not deserve it. I cannot be a good enough writer. You see? I call it grim. But the future looks awfully clear to me.
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Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.
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When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
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I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.
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I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.
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It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.
