Jay DeMarcus Quotes
We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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You can go lots of places as Gaius Baltar that other people aren't allowed to pursue.
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I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.
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I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
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We were so influenced not only by country music but by the rock bands of the '80s. Our focus was to bring in something different. Country music already had a George Strait and Alabama. We wanted to put some pop music in our show.
