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Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.

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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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Teachers're always using that in your own words. I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.
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I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.
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Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed
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I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
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But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.
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Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.
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The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
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I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
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You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
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I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
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Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
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If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.
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Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
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