Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.
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My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.
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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.
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What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
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Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.
