Jason Robert Brown Quotes
You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.Jason Robert Brown
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
Pat Summitt -
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
Zoe Saldana -
My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
S. T. Joshi -
So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
Caio Fonseca -
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
Nancy Pelosi -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
Taron Egerton -
I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
Vicki Lawrence -
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
Ed Markey -
I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
R. Kelly -
We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
Gary Bettman
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
Hallie Ephron -
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
Barbara Kingsolver -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
Anton Zaslavski -
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
J. C. Watts
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
Jack Henry Abbott -
I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
Maya Beiser -
When I'm onstage, I'm more in the audience in my head than I am on the stage.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe -
I was bullied at school for my red hair; today I still come out fighting hard. I give as good as I get. In business, it's about finding solutions, not being rolled over.
John Caudwell -
If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.
Aubrey de Grey -
You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
Jason Robert Brown