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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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 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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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 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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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
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It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.
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While faith need not be monolithic - it can motivate both voting behavior and character development - focus matters. A Christianity constantly looking for political answers to moral and spiritual problems gives believers an excuse to blame other people when they should be looking in the mirror.
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I got to tell you, guys that have sex with each other's anal cavities - how can we offend guys that actually have anal sex? Don't you think that might offend some of us who think that's despicable?
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When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.
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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.
