Jeff Ross Quotes
My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.
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I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
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For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition.
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My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.
