Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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Nashville is only a couple of hours from New York, and people just move at a slower pace there - and they don't care who you are or what you do.
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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I have never liked sex. I do not think I ever will. It just seems the opposite of love.
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By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
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To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.
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Hillary Clinton was in rural America during the Iowa caucuses, but I think the nature of a campaign makes it more difficult once you become the candidate. There's a messaging opportunity here throughout, not just in the election season, but before the election, the opportunity to underscore what government is doing in a positive way in partnership with rural folks. I think it's a messaging issue. It's being there physically, talking to folks, listening to people, respecting and admiring what they do, and then making sure that they understand precisely what the partnership is.
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I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music.
