"I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer."

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Source : "John Lloyd Young Takes 'Jersey Boys' From Broadway To Screen". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, www.wbur.org. June 20, 2014.

John Lloyd Young

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“I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.”
“If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.”
“The market is like the police: of course you need it, but if it becomes the central organizing principle of your culture then you're in deep trouble.”
“I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.”

Source : Song: BBQ Stain
“Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly what the people in power do, and repeats what the people in power say, the public is badly informed, and it means we cannot really say we have a functioning democracy.”

Source : Interview with Stefan Sirucek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2010.
“The writer's job is the job of a clown â€¦the clown who also talks about sorrow.”
“We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.”

Source : "Farewell to the woman they called the Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley dies at 87" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2007.

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