Elvis Mitchell Quotes

In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.

Elvis Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I was discovered at 16, so all I've done is be a communicator and an entertainer all my life, and my energy is who I am in real life.

Mauro Ranallo

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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

John Thune

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I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Stanley Tucci

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That's why 'Chandelier' was interesting to me... I wrote the song because there's so many party-girl anthems in pop. And I thought it'd be interesting to do a different take on that.

Sia

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If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long.

Tom Colicchio

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Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

Diane von Furstenberg

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I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

Dick Van Dyke

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We never do two shows the same way. The audience has a lot to do with that spontaneity, and it's our job to satisfy them.

Dennis Edwards

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At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

Christine Quinn

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Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love.

Brian Chesky

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The first time I was on 'Johnny Carson,' I remember being so scared, but the minute he started talking to me, I felt a little more comfortable because I just knew he was going to take care of me. Hopefully, I have learned something from watching him for so many years that I can offer that to a guest.

Bonnie Hunt

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