Jason Ralph Quotes
There's people who can, like, dive into material for hours and hours and hours and work on one tiny little specific thing without getting bored of it. Learning how to do that was, like, very useful.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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It's much easier to work with an unknown.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.
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I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.
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The will is not fundamentally right, as the practical ones would like very much to assure us; one may not pass over the desire for knowledge in order to stand immediately in the will, but knowledge perfects itself to will when it desensualizes itself and creates itself as a spirit 'which builds its own body.'
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There's people who can, like, dive into material for hours and hours and hours and work on one tiny little specific thing without getting bored of it. Learning how to do that was, like, very useful.
