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David Mitchell Quotes

I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.

David Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: January 12, 1969

Topics

Character Style Man Me Book Think

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

John Greenleaf Whittier

People Trying Said Done Follow Up

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

Robert McChesney

Penny Return Those Public Them Gets

I went to the University of Washington in Seattle. This was a very good place to study, and I learned a lot. But it wasn't the right place for my Ph.D.

Robert Mundell

Good Place Washington Right Study

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.

Mike Rogers

Women Children You Down Never Lived

I think my music generally transcends a lot of genres.

Mika

Music Think I Think Lot Transcends

I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

Claire Messud

Work Criticism Short Two Film Did

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

Bonnie Wright

Loved Always Dialogue Writes

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

Brittany Murphy

Listening Choices Values Important

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

War Wrong Losses Instrument Instead

More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.

Rex Tillerson

Knowledge Science Medical People Now

In modern times, if you're on an airplane and it's going down, that's it. You've got a couple of minutes, if that, to work out where you stand in relationship to the whole of your life.

Linus Roache

Life Work Relationship Airplane You

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

Holly Madison

Process Want Started Really Adoption