Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I operated a business where I let someone steal three-quarters of a million dollars.
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The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
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I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'
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True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Telugu actor.
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We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
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Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.
