David Mitchell Quotes

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

David Mitchell

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I think a lot of people thought my career started with Butch Cassidy.

Robert Redford

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And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

Jean Ingelow

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There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

Stephen Hawking

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Every era has its cartoon rich guys, but most of them are actual cartoons - Daddy Warbucks, Scrooge McDuck, C. Montgomery Burns.

Steve Rushin

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If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

Steve Scalise

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There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.

Trinny Woodall

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It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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If it weren't for 'Cuckoo's Nest,' it would be very difficult for me. It gave me a cushion to live at my artistic pace and not fear I wouldn't have money to live on.

Milos Forman

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To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.

Little Richard

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I'm not a big TV guy, though.

Josh Hutcherson

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You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

Chris Daughtry

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The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Cory Booker

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