Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.

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• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Famous

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • She
  • Black

• I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • Just
  • Going

• As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Power
  • Perfect

• We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Money
  • Nature
  • Value

• I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Support
  • Health

• Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Cool
  • Unique

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • America
  • Health

• It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Religion
  • Sense
  • Regard

• Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Different
  • Action

• That's one of those questions where somebody says "would you like to see more women behind the camera?" And then it becomes I must have interrupted the interview to make a platform stance. But, no, I do believe it. In Australia, per capita, we've got a slightly more balanced and healthier statistic than here. I've only just started working more regularly with female ADs and its just a beautiful, different energy on set.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
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