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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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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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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We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.
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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
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It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.
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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
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My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.
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I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.
