Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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A big part of what I wanted to do with this character was go from when I was a boy and try and develop into a man, really try and play him as a man who is on this search, on a journey of personal, spiritual, political, social discovery.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
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People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.
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For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.
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I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.
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I don't recommend skipping college, but things have worked out for me.
