Jason Mraz Quotes
I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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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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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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The greatest thing has been that projects that were pipe dreams before 'Whiplash' are now feeling more realistic.
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These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.
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I think there's a song for every moment. I don't think there's one right love song.
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.
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I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.
