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?

Jason Robert Brown

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Seen

• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Down
  • Cat
  • Clever

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• My favourite smell on a man is Lynx and Marc Jacobs.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Man
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Years
  • Right
  • Leg

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• 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.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Children
  • Kindness
  • Skiing

• 'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Way
  • Moment

• 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.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Inspiration
  • Actor

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Woman

• I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• 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.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Texas

• Courtroom dramas can be boring.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Boring
  • Dramas
  • Courtroom

• 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.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Forget

• Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Party
  • Friend

• My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Father
  • Death
  • Pain

• Ohhh, I'm in luv, I'm in luv

  

  Da Brat

• If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • National
  • Park
  • Lord Bryce

• What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Red

• 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?

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Why
  • Control
  • Vision