Elvis Mitchell Quotes

The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

Elvis Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 6, 1958

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It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.

Joe Perry

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I have to let the general manager do what makes the most sense, or I can't hold him accountable.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

Jean Renoir

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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

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It was a lot of fun doing 'Felicity.' She had just won the Golden Globe, and she was huge at the time, but she was like the nicest girl ever. As a guest star on a show, you get on the set and you feel out of place, but she was so nice to me and really cool.

Simon Rex

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'Grey's' has this universal, global thing to it. It works all over the world.

Shonda Rhimes

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Computer power grows according to Moore's law, as does the sophistication of handheld devices.

Martin Rees

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When I started music, I started out in Puerto Rico with classical music. But what really made me want to be a musician was jazz, and because I didn't grow up with jazz, I had to learn it from a very basic level. I had to go into the history and learn everything about the development of the music, all the players and all that stuff.

Miguel Zenon

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The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

Mick Taylor

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On the night before a triathlon, I normally eat something simple like a pizza. You know where you stand with pizza. It's not going to upset you or give you food poisoning, and it contains carbohydrates and a bit of salt, which is perfect before a triathlon.

Jonathan Brownlee

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When you're writing for newspapers you have all these parameters. You can't swear, you have to use short paragraphs, all that. If you stay within those parameters, you have lots of freedom because you're writing for the next day.

Chuck Klosterman

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Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

Bruce Springsteen

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