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Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.


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RADHA MITCHELL I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't ...
RADHA MITCHELL Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same t...
RADHA MITCHELL I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different t...
RADHA MITCHELL Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
RADHA MITCHELL I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vamp...
RADHA MITCHELL This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately i...
RADHA MITCHELL I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollyw...
RADHA MITCHELL Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in som...
RADHA MITCHELL We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a fo...
RADHA MITCHELL So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
RADHA MITCHELL In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
WARREN MITCHELL I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Cathol...
WARREN MITCHELL I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to...
WARREN MITCHELL I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weak...
VICTOR MITCHELL There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. ...
VICTOR MITCHELL I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
VICTOR MITCHELL My son's a West Point cadet.
VICTOR MITCHELL We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
VICTOR MITCHELL