Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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If people are not tied to the work from a mission-driven focus, I don't think you're going to motivate them.
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The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.
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I always look at things half full and definitely see a change in how things are going as far as black actresses and their opportunities.
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The Actors Fund is a human services organization, so our focus has been on caring for the entire human as opposed to dealing with the disease.
