Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
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There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
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My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
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The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.
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[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.
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Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.
