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.
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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.
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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.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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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.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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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.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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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.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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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.
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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.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
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Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
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I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
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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.
