Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next.

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• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • God
  • Purpose

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Product
  • Quantity

• I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Australia

• It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Present

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• I'm just a worker.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Just
  • Worker

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Day
  • Cancer

• We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Forget
  • Brutal
  • Middle Ages

• While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Game
  • Action
  • Serious

• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I'm in a kind of weird position where I want to prove that I can do smaller movies.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Weird

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Different
  • May
  • Change

• To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Job

• I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins