Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes
I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
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Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
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All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.
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Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
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I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
