Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes
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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 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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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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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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People read things into my commercials that don't even exist.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music.
