Jay Duplass Quotes
On 'Transparent,' I work closely with LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are now my close friends - truth be told, we're all more like family.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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I wish people would just like me for what I am, the singer in an OK new wave band.
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I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.
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Wherever people are in their evolution, they start to come into that hope and feeling like they are okay, that they're going to be okay.
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Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.
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Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.
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On 'Transparent,' I work closely with LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming people who are now my close friends - truth be told, we're all more like family.
