Jason Ralph Quotes
Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.
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I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
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Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.
