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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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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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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In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.
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'Entrepreneur' is a French word.
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Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.
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I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
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Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.
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Anyone who thinks restaurants are hard should try working at a tech company.
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I think a part of the reason that those early plays were short was that I just kept having these ideas, and I'd just go off and write them. I wasn't trying to write one-act plays - it's just how the ideas would be expressed. Every condition I was in seemed like it could be a play.
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I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.
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I didn't want to make a caricature version of Elektra.
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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.
