Jason Moran Quotes
Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
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My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.
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Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.
