Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1957

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America has the greatest military in the world, and it's up to our leaders to set the bar for what a 21st century military culture of innovation with transparent, collaborative leadership looks like.

Joe Lonsdale

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The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

John Lithgow

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Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Robert Sheckley

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It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Max Frisch

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By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.

Tom Waits

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Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book.

Michelle Dean

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Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life?

Michael Leunig

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I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.

Lleyton Hewitt

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Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

Janet Yellen

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Politicians love regulating. That's part of the whole power structure.

Clint Eastwood

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The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

Schuyler Fisk

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