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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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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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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The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
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Some days, I don't recognise my country, and other days, I see people being vocal and passionate, and I think, 'There's my country.'
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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.
