David Mitchell
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
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.
It is a worry. Eventually something's got to give between how much we own and how much space we live in.
Our running game has been struggling, and the key was to try to get on top of these guys early and work the ground game. We wanted to develop some confidence in our running game, which we did tonight.
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.
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.
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.
With the lack of available land in the TMC, the property is an excellent addition to SMC's growing Houston portfolio.
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.