Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I really believe that if you want something bad enough, and you work so hard to get it, and you have it inside, then if you just never stop, it's gonna happen.
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Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
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A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
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I had just made this album called 'Mind Blow,' a CD-R release on Spirit of Orr. This was in 2003. Quite a few of the songs from 'Was Dead' were actually on that.
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My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of looking at the transitions that we've made between pre-Sputnik days and getting to the moon.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.
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To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.
