Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • World
  • Today
  • Reality

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Politics
  • Interested
  • Did

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Dreams
  • Here

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Free
  • Competition
  • Forward

• In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Equality

• After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Learn

• When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.

  

  Valerie June
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.

  

  Maluma
  • Good
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

  

  Georg Simmel
  • Time
  • Men
  • Temptation

• The Wright brothers' first flight was shorter than a Boeing 747's wing span. We've just begun with heart transplants.

  

  C. Walton Lillehei
  • Heart
  • Brother
  • Wings

• I have to take care of myself in order to live life the way I want to. It's important to have rest days. But in the long run, if I don't work out for, like, three days, I feel worse, not better.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Time
  • Important
  • College

• It is relatively impossible for people to have clear perspectives on themselves when they're in the midst of them, and often harder to recollect after the times, eras, and situations themselves have passed.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • People

• One of the most incredible and important things about the theater is that we're creating a safe space for all feelings, but especially, ugly feelings.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Important
  • Space
  • Ugly