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
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.
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
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.
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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.