Terrence J (Terrence Jenkins) Quotes
I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
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I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.
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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
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Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?
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The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.
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I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life.
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I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.
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I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.
