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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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
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I was in musical theater when I first started, so there was always both acting and singing. But as far as getting a record deal, that took time. The majority of that time, I was acting.
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I've gotten used to being a foreigner.
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I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.
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Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.
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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.
