Jonathan Mannion Quotes

My parting words are I’m excited for what’s next. It’s easy for me to sit over a 20 year career and say what I’ve done right or what I’ve done wrong but, I ultimately I have a perspective that’s very clear and educated on an art form.

Jonathan Mannion

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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

Madeleine Albright
- New
- Warrior
- Princess
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun
- High
- Courage
- Voice
That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

Earl Scruggs
- Long
- Together
- Best
'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

Laura Mvula
- She
- Me
- Name
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Beck
- Think
- Generation
- Mission
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Tahar Ben Jelloun
- World
- Change
- Poetry