Austin Mitchell Quotes
There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.
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I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.
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Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.
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It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
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The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
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The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.
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We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.
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When you work with kids, people tell you to be very delicate, but that's the last thing you should do with kids. They feel patronized if you're like that. They just want you to be normal.
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When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.
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It's true that some countries have more volatility, but each also has nuances we don't even know about.
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I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and places. The class thing is very dominant there, but in the cultural cross-fertilization, I felt a sense of belonging.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.
