Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.

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• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Adversity

• I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Life
  • Game
  • Man

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Women
  • Courage
  • End

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Talent
  • Knowing

• I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Age
  • Famous

• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Feeling
  • Unique
  • Perception

• Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'

  

  Bob Shacochis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

  

  Michael W. Smith
  • Done
  • Peace

• By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

  

  O. Henry
  • King
  • Rights
  • New Deal

• Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman - and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Woman
  • Cop
  • Discussed

• I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to go into the concert world. I do 40 to 50 shows. That takes one to three days a week, and I'm home the rest of the time.

  

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