Jay Pharoah Quotes
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
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I love curvy women. Maybe because I'm not. I would love to be a Marilyn Monroe, but I'm very far away from that... So I love very curvy girls.
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Death is a monster; death is horrible.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
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I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.
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In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it - but men were different. A man like B - like Alfie, too - never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.
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Now it feels like no one ever left me out in the rain, cold words still remain unspoken.And I never got lost, spent years in the dark.You're here, now my heart's unbroken.When I see you smile, fill my soul again, and I'm unbroken.
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Non sibi sed domino grauis est quae seruit egestas.
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I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.
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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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I have twin boys, 12, and a daughter, 17.
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Kafka would surely have been impressed by the twin ambitions of the modern empathetic state: the need to set up hyper-regulatory bodies preventing you from doing anything yourself, while simultaneously endowing lavish pseudo-agencies to hand out leaflets listing a 1-800 number you can dial to order more leaflets.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I had a twin, and he didn't make it.
