Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
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Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try to dictate to banks what they can do or not do, but to require them to strengthen their capital to absorb potential losses and hold less risky assets.
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In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
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Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
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I'd always been a huge fan of Stephen Schwartz.
