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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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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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal. Watch!
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You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
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The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.
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I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.
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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.
