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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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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When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.
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My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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Where I'm from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of 'cashed-up Bogans,' you know, people with no class but a lot of money.
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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.
