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David Mitchell Quotes

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

David Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Creativity Think Seeing Sometimes

My dad was born in 1909, my mother in 1914, I believe. Their life experiences were different than younger parents, so I grew up with a different perspective.

Joe R. Lansdale

Life Mother Perspective Parents Born

But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Great Woman Husband Week Three Hand

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Amy Tan

Mother People Think Understand She

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Business Music I Am Song Reputation

We never know what the Street is going to do with the funky trading.

Steve Wynn

Know Street Never Going Funky

I would have loved to study medicine, but I was lucky to have come into the profession that I loved. I may not have been very good at it, but I loved it.

Roger Moore

Good Medicine Loved Lucky Study May

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

Michael Korda

Book Without Impulse Publishing Came

I've become completely well adjusted to being a cult figure.

Lou Reed

Become Being Well Cult Figure

People forget what it was like to be young, the stuff I'm expressing now is for the first time.

Joss Stone

Time People Young Forget Now First

When I was growing up, my dad didn't have weights, so he made himself a weight bench. Instead of a hand-me-down jacket, it was a hand-me-down weight bench.

Jason Statham

Growing Up Growing Jacket Bench Up

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

Jonathan Nolan

Work Book Story Better Things Film

By turning every Yahoo search box into a Bing box, Microsoft may have bought itself the exposure it needs to be the next Google.

Douglas Rushkoff

Search Google Next Box May Exposure