Jay DeMarcus Quotes
We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Television and movies just take so long. If you pitch a show or develop a project, it can be a year before your show even gets on the air, if it gets picked up.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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Paying extra for prime placement can often pay off.
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One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.
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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
