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David Mitchell Quotes

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

David Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Way Final Cut Ambiguity Film Text

There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.

Andre Dubus III

Beautiful Experience Me Cold Deep

Nick has said he would divorce me if I got Botox.

Megan Mullally

Me Divorce Said Got Botox Would

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

Happiness Small Learn Hands You Go

If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

Andy Richter

Freedom Start You Aim Audience Just

Is the modern social pattern of unending change and movement the cause of two modern diseases, insecurity and dissatisfaction? How lucky Thomas Hood was to be able to write, 'I remember, I remember the house where I was born.' I don't even know what mine looked like!

Spike Milligan

Change Insecurity Remember Hood Born

I'm definitely drawn to stories about outsiders. Feeling like that myself as a gay black man, I often seek to give a voice to those in the world who don't have one.

Roger Ross Williams

Myself Man World Voice Black Gay

I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.

Miguel Nicolelis

Research Medicine You Know Military

Without a doubt, at the end of the day, Neom will be floated in the markets. The first zone floated in the public markets. It's as if you float the city of New York.

Mohammad bin Salman

Day New York City End Of The Day End

Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.

Joseph Wambaugh

Never Things Screen Get Percent

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

Men Nothing Judgments Pedantic

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other.

Del Close

Positive Art Together Simple People

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

Brendan Myers

Loneliness Experience People Solitude