Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. And they were all from different litters. It wasn't like they were bred. They were all from different people. And they were all different ages. When I grew up at my dad's house, I think we had seven at one point.
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Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'
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I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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I am open to them. If I come across something interesting, and I think it suits me, I may do a horror movie.
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I'm happy to sparkle like a glazed disco ball.
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If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
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They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
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All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.
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It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.
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I don't typically drink coffee.
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If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?
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I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.
