Jefferson Mays Quotes
A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.
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Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I'm a television junkie.
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Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
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I was always into fantasy characters, stories of magic, but after Red Sonja, I became obsessed with the persona, the image, of the warrior woman - the sword-wielding, defiant, fearless woman.
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My character on 'Orange is the New Black' is not one that requires being absolutely shredded with 5% body fat. But I wouldn't be opposed to doing that for a role one day.
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My manager came up with the idea of taking a Pro Tool rig out on the road to record every night and I thought it was a great idea. I felt like it would be good to record over a certain period of time and then take the best performances of that collection of recordings. It appealed to me that it wasn't going to be from just one location.
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My friends and family all know me, and that's the important thing.
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A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.
