Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.
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I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.
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My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.
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The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.
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I find everything in life a little bit sad, but I also find a great deal of hope everywhere I look.
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When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.
