David Mitchell Quotes

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

David Mitchell

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WritingComingUpAgainStuff

I really have to pace myself. I work about 75 hours a week.

Joe Penny

WorkMyselfWeekPaceHoursReally

I think, Koreans, they're really hard-working people. They're really innovative, and they try new things all the time, so I think it's just a matter of time when everyone will know K-pop.

Jessica Jung

TimeNew ThingsPeopleThinkKnow

If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.

Andy Daly

FeelI CanToo MuchWriteStageOut

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

John Roberts

FightYouKnowRightsYour

There's beauty in everyone's mug and body-ody-ody, but taking care of those things requires a lot of work, energy, and effort.

Alyssa Edwards

WorkBeautyEffortEnergyCareMug

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

Sun Ra

PeopleCountryUpOwnSetProphet

People come to this country because they view our culture as the best. It is a culture free of persecution, a culture free of oppressive government, and above all... a culture of really, really cool stuff.

Steven Crowder

BestCultureGovernmentPeopleCool

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

Steven Heighton

TravelWritingTryingBackNowWay

My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.

Michael Sheen

LifeDogCatsMy LifeTragedyWant

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

Donald Hall

LifePoetryMy LifeYoungSeenWere

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

Chiang Kai-shek

CountryImperialismWillNationThen

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

David Strathairn

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