Jay DeMarcus Quotes
I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.
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I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.
