Jason Mraz Quotes
When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.
Quotes to Explore
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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America is a country that prides itself on being able to identify a 'straight shooter' or 'the genuine article' when it comes to our leaders. As a nation, we can 'feel it in our gut' when someone is giving us a bum steer.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.
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I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus.
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When you're writing a song and there are five people invested in it, it's easy for one person to say, 'Oh, this song is about this and that', and everyone has to hear the idea and see if they can do better.
