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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I missed a lot of family weddings and funerals because we were out on the road and had these big gigs, and you can't pull out of these gigs at the last minute because too many people are counting on it. It got to the point where I was consumed with that.
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I don't think kids have a problem reading books meant for adults; the problem is on the other side of the fence, a misconception of what one kind of literature is 'supposed' to be, perceived to be, as opposed to another: if it's for kids, it can't be any good; it's got to have been dumbed down and/or sweetened up.
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I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.
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I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
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I was never popular. I always kind of wanted to be accepted with the rich kids, with the cool kids, and I never had that.
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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.
