Jayma Mays Quotes
Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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I love New York. Love it.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer.
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We know enough to stand here in truth – facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.
