Jason Moran Quotes
While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians.
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I don't worry about running myself ragged. I worry about being bored.
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The first thing that I see in a woman are her eyes. Sorry, it sounds shallow, but eyes say a lot about a person.
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There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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While my friends were outside practising to be Tony Hawk or Michael Jordan, I was inside playing Mozart, increasingly disillusioned and bored.
