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George J. Mitchell Quotes

So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

George J. Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 20, 1933

Topics

Father Mother Name Boston Him Up

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body.

Jodie Foster

Pain Eye Parent You Body Look

In short, Luck's always to blame.

Jean de La Fontaine

Luck Blame Short Always

I love to sit, to watch people; even in New York, I don't feel as free as in London.

Stephane Rolland

Love New York People Free Feel New

When you knock people out, it's sometimes a very scary situation - but I always hoped that no one got seriously hurt. Now when I see them get knocked out, I laugh. When you finish the game, it's funny. And when I look at film of myself, I think, 'I wouldn't fight that guy.'

Marvin Hagler

Funny Myself Fight People Game Hurt

In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article as well.

Monica Hesse

Good Learn You Want Build Fiction

Look at Nicola Walker in 'Last Tango in Halifax.' She has the most wonderful face. You just want to look at her. And if she'd gone off and had Botox and facelifts, I wouldn't want to look at that face because it wouldn't express anything.

Judy Parfitt

Face You Look Want She Anything

Attention. That's all girls want.

Diplo

Attention Want

When I first started out acting, I didn't have anything to lose. I had another career. If I fell on my face, I could say, 'I'll see ya,' and go back to working.

Dennis Farina

Face Lose Back Career Acting Go

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Life End Details I Can Know My Own

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

Cleo Moore

Truth Baseball Me Think Feel You

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

Annie Besant

Evil Imperfection End Complete Only

I really get pursued by men in their 20s, like, a lot. They probably know there's food in the fridge and that somebody's going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.

Sharon Stone

Food Day Men Know Talk Ask