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Perhaps where text slides tow...

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

I can't bear living in this h...

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

I think words operate like mu...

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Write something every single ...

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.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Our lives are not our own. We...

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Little girls are like old cat...

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

David Mitchell 272 quotes

In an individual, selfishness...

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

You can maintain power over p...

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Sometimes I think that creati...

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

I'm not a great deep politica...

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

As long as our civilisation k...

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

I don't have problems startin...

I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Writing is probably one-fifth...

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

It's true that stammerers can...

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

I think the story is the most...

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

A novelist needs to know his ...

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

In the 1970s and 1980s there ...

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Perhaps all human interaction...

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

People like to say that East ...

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Any adaptation is a translati...

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....