Elvis Mitchell Quotes

'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muhammad Ali, is Mr. Mann's first movie with feeling; his overwhelming love of its subject will turn audiences into exuberant, thrilled fight crowds.

Elvis Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLoveFightFeelingWillFirst

Being trans comes at a high cost, but being black and trans can cost you your life.

Angelica Ross

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Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

Michael Haneke

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I'm hoping to have a huge future in voice-overs. For years, people have said, 'I recognized your voice before I recognized your face!'

Jean Smart

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Private businesses ought to get to discriminate.

John Stossel

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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Solon

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I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted.

Rob Lowe

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It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

Romesh Gunesekera

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I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Michelle Monaghan

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Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too.

Mohsin Hamid

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For me, hip-hop has always been black superhero music.

Cheo Hodari Coker

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I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.

Bret Easton Ellis

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I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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