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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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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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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I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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I don't practice or write stuff down - everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.
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When I got out of the military, I finished up my education at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and I had some mentors who said, 'You got what it takes. You should consider going to graduate school, getting a Ph.D. in neuroscience.' I didn't think I had what it took until somebody who had a Ph.D. told me I had what it takes.
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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.
