Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
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I'm artistically critical of my own work.
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I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.
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My love for The Four Tops cannot be expressed greatly enough.
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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
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It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.
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I think 'Rent' will run forever.
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As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.
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I feel like the more we speak for and support others, the less we'll have to worry about speaking for and supporting ourselves.
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I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.
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I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.
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People talking about making America great again? America's never been great. The greatness of America is in its pursuit of greatness.
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I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.
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The producers, the creators, and the cast, we recognize that 'Hamilton' is an inherently American story told by the definition of an American community; we are men and women of different colors, creeds, and orientations.
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We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.
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I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.
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Style and image - it's what Motown is about. They had a charm school led by Maxine Powell. There was literally an artists' development department.
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I have a wide range of influences - I mean, first of all, I am a big, big fan of old soul music. Then, there's people like Donny Hathaway, Elton John... a diverse array of music.
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Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.
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When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.
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Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.
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Nothing surprises me about Berry Gordy.
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Telling diverse stories is at the heart of our culture.
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I was a fan of 'Power' before I was working on the show, so I'm excited by every script that comes into my hands.
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The biggest thing Motown did was change our social fabric: the way we interacted with each other as human beings.