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A life spent shaping a world ...

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

- This isn't an interrogation...

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Courage is the highest qualit...

Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

How could I know a famished h...

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Often I think boys don’t beco...

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-m?ch?d inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

I have always unswervingly he...

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

The learnin' mind is the livi...

The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart or low.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Faith, the least exclusive cl...

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Power, time, gravity, love. T...

Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

What is any ocean but a multi...

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Strip back the beliefs pasted...

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Autumn is leaving its mellown...

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Lying's wrong, but when the w...

Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, ...

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Folks with most to complain a...

Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up ...

Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

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Creation never ceased on the ...

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

If losers can exploit what th...

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

If you show someone something...

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

David Mitchell 272 quotes

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of...

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

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...

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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...

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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...

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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....