Jason Moran Quotes
Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
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The limelight is a tricky place, because you can't believe what's going on around you. You stop observing. You stop perceiving. You stop extending yourself, and you become isolated.
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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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Growing up on a family farm, I know firsthand the challenges of running a small business... challenges that only seem to be growing for today's entrepreneurs.
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As he saw it, there was only one choice - to be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.
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And Dr. Dre said … nothing, you idiots! Dr. Dre's dead, he's locked in my basement!
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Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.
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It's an important fact of life, war.
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A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
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You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.
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Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And you want it to talk back to you.
