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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I remember my mom being very scared the first few auditions. My parents are very supportive, but they're also very realistic, which is great.
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This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.
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There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
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Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.
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I always say, be human and preach humanity. I started my humanitarian service by strictly observing four principles: truth, simplicity, hard-work and punctuality, and I repeat, be human, preach humanity and adopt humanity.
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I'd always been a huge fan of Stephen Schwartz.
