Jay DeMarcus Quotes

We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Children
  • Book
  • Stories

• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Kind
  • Style

• My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Best
  • Fight

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Star
  • First

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• I am a Westerner of Westerners!

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Westerner

• Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Law
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Beginning
  • Everything

• I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Football
  • Player

• I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • College
  • Everything
  • Quit

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Government
  • Chance
  • Sea

• I have reservations about everything I do.

  

  Larry David
  • Everything
  • Reservations

• You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Past
  • Fake

• Item numbers are not my cup of tea.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Tea
  • Numbers
  • Cup

• For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Up
  • Abuse

• Often I'll go to the market, and women will say to me: "Let me see your shoes." And then I show them I'm wearing flip-flops.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Market

• There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Business

• The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• We were kind of young and a little naive when we first started out in the business.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Business
  • Young
  • Naive