Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I try to do my best.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say something stupid. But as soon as I step out on that stage, or as soon as I show up to a date, it all goes away, and I just have a great time with whoever I'm with.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I always saw the best reporters as ones you hardly ever saw other than when they were back in the newsroom, writing their stories.
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I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.
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'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
