Jason Ralph Quotes
Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.
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My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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Flowers are happy things.
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I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.
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I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
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Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
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I write slowly.
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I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.
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Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
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The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed.
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Law can change how people behave when others are watching - that's all.
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I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.
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Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.
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I would love to keep playing roles where I get to inspire young women, and I get to uplift them and tell their stories and tell important stories that haven't been told.
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Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
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Das Leben als Ertrag des Lebens. - Der Mensch mag sich noch so weit mit seiner Erkenntniss ausrecken, sich selber noch so objectiv vorkommen: zuletzt trägt er doch Nichts davon, als seine eigene Biographie.
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Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.
