Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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Even though my shoes are different from Ferragamo's aesthetic, which is more classic, I learned the importance of fit and quality. We were making shoes like they used to, by hand, and I carried that with me.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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Mo: My sister-in-law had her baby! I'm an aunt! My brother's a father! My mother's a grandma! My dad's a...Sydney: I think I can generalize from there.
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I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons.
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Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
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My father was a huge jazz fan, so I remember him playing Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie.
