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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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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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Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.
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Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
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Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
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What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
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If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
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Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
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Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
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Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
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To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
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A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
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...now I'm a spent firework but at least I've been a firework.
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If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency.
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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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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
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Men invented money Women invented mutual aid
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