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Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
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David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
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Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
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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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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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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
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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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The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
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The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth
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There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.
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Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?
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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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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
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Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
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Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
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