Jay London Quotes
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.
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Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.
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A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
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I would never play a character that wasn't true. It's not a moral thing; it's just that it's more convincing if it's a little bit like me.
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If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.
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I want to lower taxes for the middle class.
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The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me.
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I saw a stationery store move.
