Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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Jesus Christ will appear with me on the platform...
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I would love to go back to Broadway.
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All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.
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It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.
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I suppose the first big shift in my life was when, at the age of 8, my father left my mother, leaving her alone with two daughters to bring up. That taught me the importance of women being financially independent. You never know what might happen.
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My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'
