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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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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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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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.
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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
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I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on the Bronte sisters, and Daphne du Maurier.
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Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.
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I'm sure when they partied when Rome was burning, that was a really great party.
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My wife is one of the most extroverted people I know. She could out-talk Oprah and Joyce Meyer simultaneously.
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Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
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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.
