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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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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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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Make a stir-fried rice dish with some cut-up chicken and any vegetables folded into the rice for a 'one pot' meal lunch that has it all - protein, starch and vegetables.
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I don't see myself as some television star; I see myself as a girl from Albany.
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To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
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Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.
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There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.
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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.
