Jay DeMarcus Quotes
We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
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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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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
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Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'
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You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
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The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
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I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
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We started out as a bar band. We were sometimes playing in front of 20 people.
