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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People have to evolve.
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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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I still like to make crank calls.
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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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Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
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Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.
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I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.
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Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.
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I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.
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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.
