Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Figure out who you are.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.
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That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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I didn't really think I liked jazz all that much until I was about 18. That's when the freedom and possibilities of it began to seem appealing to me.
