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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It's craziness to see yourself as damaged goods, so I was the goofy kid who'd stop a strange adult and say, 'Do you know how to get to Palm Avenue?' They'd say no, and I'd say, 'You go two blocks and turn right. You can't miss it.'
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And she was fair as is the rose in May.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.
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Snow and dark, and the winter comes. Nothing remains the same.
