Elvis Mitchell Quotes

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques Mr. Mann brought to bear on 'Heat,' right down to using a similar cold-blooded electronic score.

Elvis Mitchell

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Author Biography

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

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I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

Jim Jarmusch

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Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.

Joel Benenson

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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Socrates

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I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

Roy Clark

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A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

Martin Yan

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I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

Mike Gordon

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For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.

Luke Evans

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I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

Jason Calacanis

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The virtual world is a 'public square' much more vast than Tiananmen Square. And you can't send in the tanks to crush the netizens.

Jared Cohen

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When you're an adult designer, you're either running a business, or you're helping someone else's business run. Either way, that's a lot of pressure.

Christian Siriano

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I felt that The Who had ended because we'd lost touch with our original Shepherd's Bush audience.

Pete Townshend

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New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.

Lewis Mumford

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