Jack McBrayer Quotes
I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.
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Never forget that your days are blessed. You may know how to profit by them, or you may not, but they are blesses.
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You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
