Branford Marsalis Quotes
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If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.
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If you have a solution to immigration, it is possible to come home and defend it.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation.
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People don't want to hear about it if you're frustrated with your big career break.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.
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We are not America. We are Afghanistan.
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In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.
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Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
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There is always a conflict and that even increases as I get older. I have to be on my guard not to oversimplify things, but you can hardly deny that architecture is physical presence.
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I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.
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My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.
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I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.
