Jay IDK Quotes
At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to understand the industry, the more I fell in love with it.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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My dad taught me that language was a powerful tool.
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I took more swings than usual. I've had this before. This is what you get when you overdo it too early. It's just real tight. It will be fine.
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Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
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At first, I thought I could go to school and do music on the side and be successful, but the more I began to understand the industry, the more I fell in love with it.
