Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an actor. I decided to just pursue both and see which won out.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
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I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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There has been a kind of stereotypical 'gamer dude' that has been representative for the gamer community in the years past. But I want to spearhead or be a part of changing that.
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Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine spectrum.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.
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I never compromise with my work.
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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
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I'd been playing the piano since I was 6 and wanted to be a composer, but I also wanted to be an actor. I decided to just pursue both and see which won out.
