Elyne Mitchell Quotes
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I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.
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I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.
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'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.
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It's interesting because what I do and what I sing is, to other people, pretty unique. I feel I'm creating my own path... and I'm working on growing as a performer.
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Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
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Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
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Just think life's too short to get hung up on maybes.
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It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.
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As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.
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Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.
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Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.
