Jason Mraz Quotes
As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.
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Of course, DeMille never did anything on a small scale.
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Art is elimination of the unnecessary.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything; by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.
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As things grew for me I felt like I was losing myself and wanted to stay true to myself as well. I didn't want to lose any connection I had with the audience. I felt small on a big stage and I felt like I was peaking generically to an audience.
