Jay DeMarcus Quotes

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
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  • Want
  • Forever

• I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Trump
  • Terrible

• What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
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• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
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• You must prune dead or dying wood.

  

  Warren Giles
  • You
  • Dying
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• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Heart
  • Head
  • Worked

• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Inspire

• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Men
  • Attention
  • Simple

• When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
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• A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.

  

  Ramez Naam
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• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Why
  • Think

• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  

  O. J. Simpson
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  • Know
  • I Can

• I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
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• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
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• I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.

  

  Jill Abramson
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• I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

  

  Matthew Lesko
  • Society

• When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
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