Jason Robert Brown Quotes
Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
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What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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I didn't like the idea of changing myself for the industry. I felt to have my teeth straightened and bleached and to starve myself to change my body was not respecting who I was.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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All the social things the consumer has gotten used to are being applied to business.
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Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.
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The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
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True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
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If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.
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Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
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Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.
