Jay DeMarcus Quotes

I think it happens with every career when you've been around 10 or 12 years. You start to get on cruise control a little bit, then you freak out and go, 'Oh my gosh, we've got to change some things up.'

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
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  • Think
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• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  

  Sam Shepard
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• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
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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
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  • History
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• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
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• I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

  

  Randy Moss
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• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
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• Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

  

  Vidya Balan
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• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

  

  Matthew Morrison
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• I don't know where my career is going, but I know that when I'm not active, it really drives me crazy. So it wouldn't have to be a film with dance in it, but hopefully I'll be able to be somewhat active with the projects that I do or, if not, I'll have time on the side to do my yoga.

  

  Kathryn McCormick
  • Time
  • Career
  • Crazy

• Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Believe
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• Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Struggle

• I think it happens with every career when you've been around 10 or 12 years. You start to get on cruise control a little bit, then you freak out and go, 'Oh my gosh, we've got to change some things up.'

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Career
  • Change
  • Cruise Control