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 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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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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After moving to L.A., I've started to appreciate the relaxed American look.
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My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.
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Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.Edward Smith: Thank you, Andy.
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Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
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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.
