Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

The first role that I played as a musical - I was 14 years old, and I played Birdie in 'Bye Bye Birdie.' That was an awakening of, 'Wow, I'm good at that. People are responding.' And I hardly knew what I was doing back then, but there was something that people were seeing.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

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We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

Robert Mugabe

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'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

Amanda Seales

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I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.

Steve Southerland

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The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

Joseph Prince

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Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Sacks

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Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

Anthony Michael Hall

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I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

Annie Potts

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My brother is about six years older, and I've always looked up to him.

Sutton Foster

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Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Pope John Paul II

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Thomas Carlyle

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I want my children to be proud of their father and to say, 'My father is the best dad in the world.' And I want them to belong to a modern family, and live a path of happiness and calm.

Ricky Martin

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