Jay DeMarcus Quotes
I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I love simplicity.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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I'm not interested in being in 'Heat Magazine.'
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I don't want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That's why it's so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me.
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Tupac gave us validity. Tupac made the kid getting beat up every day realize that it was okay to be smart. Tupac made the knucklehead realize that it was okay to stay home and read a book. A fool at 40, a fool forever.
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I think our kids live an extraordinarily different life than what I lived growing up. Pretty much everything about their life is different than mine was.
