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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I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
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59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics.
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Trauma dissociates us from the parts of our body that are wounded, so we have to leave our whole body. It's a journey you take your whole life, that coming back in, re-landing in your body, in your self, on the Earth. I think one of the reasons it's been so easy, in a way, for us to violate both women and the Earth is this profound dissociation that exists in everyone.
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I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.
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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.
