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 wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I'd wanted to be a director since 13, and horror and the suspense thriller were the most powerful genres to me.
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Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.
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It's an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I'm not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.
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I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.
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There has always been cheating going on in pitching and hitting. As far as cheating, using a wooden bat and flattening the hitting surface, that has always been going on. ... It is usually discovered in pretty good time.
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Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.
