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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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
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The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.
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I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.
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If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
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I was an '80s child, so I grew up loving all kinds of '80s rock. I like R&B, too.
