Jefferson Mays Quotes

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Jefferson Mays

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 8, 1965

Topics

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The weird thing about acting is you're the most competent when you're at your best, but you have to be validated.

Max Minghella

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When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

John Lewis

SpeakYouSayFairRightSee

I like hurting people.

Tony Bellew

PeopleLikeHurting

I like Avenged Sevenfold and Five Finger Death Punch, with whom I did a single.

Rob Halford

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I can't think, 'Ah, that team should call me up.' The only thing I can do is stay in shape and wait. You can only control what you can control.

Michael Sam

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Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

Michael Keaton

MeBelieveBetterOutfitMoviesGuy

I don't think Mr. Putin has our best interests at heart.

Michael McCaul

HeartBestThinkOurBest Interests

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.

Deepika Padukone

RelationshipBlack And WhitePeople

I don't believe the world's a particularly beautiful place, but I do believe in redemption.

Colum McCann

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We have a legacy to uphold: the people who died so that we could have the right to vote; the people who sacrificed so that we would one day realize the dream of a black president.

Clementa C. Pinckney

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I'm very much a technical person.

Ashley Wagner

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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.

Allan Guthrie

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