Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I am an ordinary person.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.
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I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.
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The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.
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I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.
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A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.
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I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.
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In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.
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College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.
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Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.
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God was a clever idea … The human race came up with a winner there.
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Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.
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Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
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I'd rather live in Nebraska than Washington.
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When I was a model at 15, I was eating one red pepper a day, and if I had a big day of castings, I would survive off a bag of Haribo, which gave me the 500 calories a day that would keep me alive. I was congratulated daily on my appearance - the more vertebrae upon my back you could count, the better my auditions went.
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I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
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Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.
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What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
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It's nearly impossible to make a living in the arts.
