Jay Kay Quotes
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
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I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?
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Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: … I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
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The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
