David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
English stand up comedian and half of the comedy duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb. He is best known for starring in and writing the Channel 4 series Peep Show, for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2009. He has also written and starred in several sketch shows including The Mitchell and Webb Situation, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and, That Mitchell and Webb Look.
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth14 July 1974
CitySalisbury, England
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.
Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.
clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.
I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end.
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now,
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.
Reality is the page. Life is the word.