Arthur Mitchell Quotes
Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
Quotes to Explore
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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We can overcome evil with greater good.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
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What I do I am driven to do. I follow the dictates of a looming and unseen force. I try to become like a musical instrument, intruding no sound of its own but bringing forth such tones as are played upon it by a master's hand.
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Walk into a room, knowing you are somebody, somebody special. Don't ever let them smash that or pull you down.
