Jay Baruchel Quotes
For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
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I am very proud to be African. I want to defend African people, and I want to show to the world that African players can be as good as the Europeans and South Americans.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.
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It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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I think that Obama's failure to reestablish the rule of law in money matters is the most damaging thing that he's done - and perhaps the most damaging thing that has happened in American politics in my lifetime. Because once the rule of law is absent in money matters, then anything really goes in politics.
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So many people appreciate what you've done, the doors you've opened, but some people realise they're not going to be able to make as much money as they thought possible when you first started.
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The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.
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For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.
