Mitchell Reiss Quotes
You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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We earned our dollars in a hard way;, nobody gave us a feast or gave it on a plate. We worked hard and we have innovated; we have made things in a better way at a cheaper rate and gave it to the people of India.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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The guys today are just too strong and back then they would take many hard punches to land one.
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I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.
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The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.
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The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.
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Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.
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The Indian cowboy is such a uniquely American contradiction.
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I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.
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The piano is kind of my second instrument.
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Remember that we're only on our third record, which is not really a lot. We live in the era of trilogies, and we definitely feel like the first three records mark the end of a phase for us.
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You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.
