Branford Marsalis Quotes

My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

Branford Marsalis

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I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.

Joe Mantello

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I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.

John Kluge

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I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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'Lost' was my favorite show! I'm really sad that it's gone.

Robbie Jones

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Between 1999 and 2009, the people of Baltimore achieved the greatest reduction in crime of America's largest cities.

Martin O'Malley

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My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Dick Cavett

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Getting knocked out in your underwear in the Octagon is pretty embarrassing, but people are like, 'The guy he's fighting is really, really good, and he is a UFC fighter, so he can still beat up 99 percent of the world,' so it's not that embarrassing.

Brendan Schaub

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Halsey's a really great artist - her voice is great, and she has a really cool message behind her songs.

Brendon Urie

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I don't think I'm a funny person in general. I have had to learn comedy.

Ashton Kutcher

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There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

Phil Ramone

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I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.

Peter Matthiessen

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I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.

Peter Billingsley

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