Jay DeMarcus Quotes
We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That's what I'm fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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I don't like to look typical.
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
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Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I'd recovered, the show's run had ended.
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The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.
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My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.
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They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
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If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.
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We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
