Elvis Mitchell Quotes

'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri.

Elvis Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

Joe Meno

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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Maya Angelou

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I didn't think about money or cars or anything like that.

Amy Purdy

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By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Stanley Hauerwas

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There's nothing like live radio. I like the challenge. Throw it my way. Let me go!

Montel Williams

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When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

Jasper Johns

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I can outbox Anthony Joshua.

Joseph Parker

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The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

Jordan Peterson

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I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

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While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001.

Anthea Butler

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Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that's part of what we do in 'Close Up', finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.

William Shatner

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When I'm not playing music, certainly the last thing I want to do is listen to music!

Peter Hook

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