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.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Food
  • Grew

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
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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.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Important
  • Soul

• Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Safe
  • Before
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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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
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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.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Better
  • Young
  • Old

• 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?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Interesting
  • Company

• 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.

  

  Tana French
  • Up
  • House
  • Reading

• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Society
  • Growth
  • Panacea

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• 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.

  

  Banks
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

  

  Om Puri
  • Effort
  • Language
  • Cinema

• 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.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Honesty

• A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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  • Nation
  • Others

• 'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
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  • Giving

• Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • High

• I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Money

• I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Wanted
  • Fringe
  • Knickers

• I do genuinely believe that, when given and presented with all the information and all the actual facts, the vast majority of people will make the right choice.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Believe

• I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.

  

  Peter Arnett
  • People
  • Beginning

• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Space
  • Church