Elvis Mitchell Quotes

In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it's an honor that these cliches don't deserve.

Elvis Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.

Jim Goad

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One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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When a player hears the word 'psychologist' at the first, you are taken aback, but I realised that I needed help.

Alvaro Morata

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HBO Go is a fantastic way to spend your time.

Stephen Moyer

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There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue. They didn't just stand up and salute when told to go to war. Women finally began to realize a more equal place in our society.

Tom Brokaw

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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. The pay wasn't much, so to get $300 more per year, I agreed to coach the golf team. I didn't even know how to keep score, and really, my main job was not to wreck the van on the way to tournaments.

Lou Holtz

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I have a lot of people depending on me - even people I didn't know depended on me.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.

Deborah Tannen

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We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Christopher Reeve

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I just don't want any songs to go unheard.

Cole Swindell

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Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

Alicia Witt

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For me, it's just finding ways to create shots. I feel like if I got a shot off, it has a good chance of going in. So it's finding ways of creating different shots. Being smart. I watch film a lot, and different tricks that I can do to get my shot off the ball and creating ways to get shots off of pick-and-rolls or one-on-one situations like that.

Seth Curry

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