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We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
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Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns.
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
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Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
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