Jason Mraz Quotes
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.
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Favorite movie of all time? I hate being asked... that's like being asked, 'What's your favorite song?'
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I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.
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When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
