Pat Mitchell
Pat Mitchell
Pat Mitchellis known for her leadership in the media industry as a CEO, producer and curator. Her career has focused on using media as a force for social change, with a special emphasis on the representation of women’s voices and stories...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
Date of Birth20 January 1943
CountryUnited States of America
anyone parity whipping
I see a lot of parity this year, ... I don't see anyone who'll be a whipping post.
ball death guard matt night nose ok rest scared spent takes time
That doggone nose guard (Isiah Furlow) was really a problem. We were scared to death of Matt Aiken. We spent a lot of time on him, and the first time he takes the ball on the option, in he goes. But the rest of the night we did OK on him.
hear
I had no idea, I was very naive, ... You hear about things but you never think it will be your children. Back then, you never really read about drugs and you didn't really hear about it on the news.
exercise knowing giving
VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing that they probably would never get to exercise the right or see the results; they said, 'this is not for ourselves alone.' It was for us and every generation of women to come. If we don't vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future.
cutting appropriation
Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.
perception majority bias
The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.
strong-women mean pbs
In my opinion, the most important thing as a woman leader-and I learned this early through a whole bunch of great women who were in my life (and men, I have to say)-is that if you have a position of leadership and power and you don't use it in a different way, then you're wasting it. So when people used to say to me when I was the first woman president of PBS, "Well, you know, does that mean that as a woman you're going to be a different kind of president?" And I would say, "Well, I hope so!"
media entity broadcasting
Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.
powerful media messengers
The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.
fall faces forward-movement
Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.
fire itself
The fire itself was minor. But there was a lot of smoke.
department fire fully
The fire had re-erupted. So the fire department fully extinguished it.
club community
The community and our booster club are really, really influential,