Jay DeMarcus Quotes
We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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I love recording music.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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Moonlight is sculpture.
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I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.
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To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.
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I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
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We've always prided ourselves on the fact that we're a band that the whole family can enjoy together.
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Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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We've always prided ourselves on putting together a great live show. That's something that means a lot to us because our bread and butter is the live tour.
