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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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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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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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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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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The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism.
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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'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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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'm in an area where I want to make music that I'm thrilled with, but, you know, I do have to worry about putting food on the table. I'm in that position where I cannot always be gauging what things might become. I have to look ahead, because I'm cautious.
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Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep.
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As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
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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.
