Two old people in a room devoid of furniture, steam rising from their teacups. They were motionless and expressionless. Waiting for something. I wish I could go into their room and sit down with them. I'd give them my Rolex for that. I wish they would smile, and pour me a cup of jasmine tea. I wish the world was like that.


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DAVID MITCHELL
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
DAVID MITCHELL
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
DAVID MITCHELL
You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
DAVID MITCHELL
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just a...
DAVID MITCHELL
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
DAVID MITCHELL
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's charact...
DAVID MITCHELL
Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.
DAVID MITCHELL
Never too late. Shooting is prayer. And when civilisation shuts up shop, a gun’ll be worth any num...
DAVID MITCHELL
The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do ...
DAVID MITCHELL
Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly...
DAVID MITCHELL
Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises &...
DAVID MITCHELL
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Lo...
DAVID MITCHELL
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurr...
MARIA MITCHELL
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already ...
RADHA MITCHELL
I do, too, most recently while I was singing karaoke in some weird bar.
RADHA MITCHELL
I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
RADHA MITCHELL
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens...
RADHA MITCHELL
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
RADHA MITCHELL
New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody A...
RADHA MITCHELL
I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally yo...
RADHA MITCHELL
I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.
RADHA MITCHELL
But I'm also a vegetarian so there's another factor I guess.
RADHA MITCHELL
I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the tim...
RADHA MITCHELL
Yeah I think Pitch Black was edgy, I think that's what worked for our film.
RADHA MITCHELL
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to...
RADHA MITCHELL
Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.
RADHA MITCHELL
It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He di...
RADHA MITCHELL
I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit ...
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