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Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

To take the ugly language out of 'Ragtime' is to sanitize it, and that does it a great disservice.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great Ugly Language Out Take Does

Other people sing in the shower, but I don't.

People Shower Sing Other

To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry.

Me Healthy Dead Industry Being Only

Unfortunately, I've seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.

Think Violence Dramatic Seen I Think

All my songs are different, but from the overall experience, I want people to sense that they can overcome and move through difficult times and find strength in my music. Maybe it's a song that makes them cry and move through something else.

Strength Music Experience People Cry

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Conflict More Wheat Petroleum Cause

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told,You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

Walk Past People Thinking Grow Look

I had a certificate that said, 'Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,' that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

Friend I Am Me Research Doctor Said

There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks.

Time Fun Used Get Made Collected

If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.

Life Vision Religion Practice Look

I had the longest awkward phase. I had braces for 3 years; I cut my own bangs too far back and they looked like a bowl cut, and I broke my nose twice.

Back My Own Years Own Bangs Awkward

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

Love Alone Child Being Alone Being

I'm blessed, and I say it all the time that I don't take anything for granted. I studied my craft and just stick with it.

Bobb'e J. Thompson

Time Blessed Say Craft Anything

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