Jason Moran Quotes
I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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My aunt Julie was a production manager, and she heard of an opening. Some show was looking for children to run around the house or whatever. I auditioned and got the part, and I showed up in all of my monstrous energy, bouncing everywhere like an electron.
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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
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I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
