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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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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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.
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I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.
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During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.
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Fear is destructive. Fear and creativity don't mix. Ultimately, it doesn't do you any good.
