William L. Jenkins Quotes
The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
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I don't know how to play evil.
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
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You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
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I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.
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I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
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I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
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The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.
