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Quote by David Mitchell
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably

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 cant help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that its taught writers. – David Mitchell

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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that its not jokes that are funny, its characters that are funny. And isnt that true! Thats why I always kill jokes. Im terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I cant get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. – David Mitchell

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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice. – David Mitchell

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Ive become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. – David Mitchell

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I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow womens rules. – Joan Jett

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I do think I feel it but you dont think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you dont think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. Its been a long fifty years. – Bob Geldof

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Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. – Dean Kamen

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I definitely dont look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. – Elijah Wood

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At last God caught his eye. – Harry Secombe

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs. – Henri Bergson

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