Jay Duplass Quotes
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.
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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
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One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…
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Of all the characters I've played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies', referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick.
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The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
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Of the many ways in which Donald J. Trump is disrupting American politics, one of the most compelling is his disregard for the established rules of communicating with voters.
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The U.S. Constitution was meant to be universal, not just something that only America would observe. The principle of defending liberty for all people ideally should apply everywhere in the world.
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I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.
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Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.
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I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun.
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There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
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The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.
