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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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.
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When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.
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For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you feel in your heart or your stomach, but also that challenges the brain at the same time. It's an experience - physical and intellectual.
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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.
