Jason Robert Brown Quotes
You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.
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I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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You'd think skiing wouldn't be strenuous - all you have to do, after all, is start at the top and let gravity pull you to the dessert bar in the lodge. But at those elevations, you'll find about as much oxygen as you'll find kindness from your children. It's like spending six hours holding your breath.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
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While Texas women have the right to safe, legal abortion, in reality there are already very few facilities in Texas to provide this essential care. In 2008, 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider.
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Courtroom dramas can be boring.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
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Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?
