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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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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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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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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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'm not sure the people who are voting for Trump want to be pulled together with the people who are voting for Clinton and vice versa.
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People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?
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Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
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When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
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We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage.
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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.
