Branford Marsalis Quotes
If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
Quotes to Explore
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.
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As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.
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Numbers are the most certain things we have.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.
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If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.
