Jay Duplass Quotes
I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a movie around you, and I want it to be this.'
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a movie around you, and I want it to be this.'
