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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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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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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There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
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There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
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It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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I think that's actually what draws me to family stories: the various roles we each play with each member of our families, and how different they can be from who we are with our friends and partners and lovers. I'm endlessly fascinated by how we navigate these family dynamics; they are the dramas each of us live out day after day, often in ways we don't even realize.
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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.
