Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix -
People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.
Gayle Forman -
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
Jack Kevorkian -
People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
Zack Snyder -
The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Zora Neale Hurston
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
Edmund Hillary -
My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
Gary Johnson -
Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
Nadine Velazquez -
Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
Manny Pacquiao -
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain -
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
T-Pain
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I love writing songs.
Sade Adu -
How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
Patrick Ness -
People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
Tab Hunter -
I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
Mahershala Ali -
People hate searching.
Sam Altman -
Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
Mahershala Ali
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I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
Kerry Bishe -
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
James Patterson -
And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
James MacArthur -
Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
John Heywood -
I tell everybody, 'If you want to get to know me, if you listen to those three records, you'll have a really good idea.' They were released at different time periods in my life, and those are the things I was going through.
Brantley Gilbert -
The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins