Jason Ralph Quotes
I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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When I'm about to go on stage, and I look out and just see the fans filled out in the arena, all pumped up and screaming - that gives me butterflies! I just love that feeling, and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a great show!'
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
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Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
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I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
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I'm not a judge.
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I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.
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As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception' painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.
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In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.
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I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.
