Jason Ralph Quotes
I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.
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My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation - but I'm working on the foundation.
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I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
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I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.
