Jay Duplass Quotes
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.
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One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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We lie more to strangers than we lie to co-workers. Extroverts lie more than introverts. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.
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Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
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For me, the more talented the actor is that I'm working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a scene are easier to believe when the people around you are in the moment just as much as you are.
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It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.
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I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
