Elvis Mitchell Quotes

A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't often get a chance to work, and when they do, they don't usually get a chance to work with other black people.

Elvis Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.

Jerry Lewis

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I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

Jenny Lewis

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Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

John Hanning Speke

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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

John Eldredge

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I think I'm just always myself, and I think that's what's most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.

Alyssa Edwards

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One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

Mary Lou Williams

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Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Not every great idea needs to be Campbell-generated. It's clear that partners and vendors and other external sources will generate innovative ideas for us.

Denise Morrison

GreatIdeasWillUsClearIdea

I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on the outside!

Douglas Adams

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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

Deborah Harkness

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I'm Richie Rich. I land in New York, secretly thinking I'm like the coolest guy in the world.

Shia LaBeouf

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Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.

Noreena Hertz

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