Richard Jenkins Quotes
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
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Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
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I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.
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The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.
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In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.
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I've been painting and making things since I was little.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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I like Mutemath a lot.
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A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.
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Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.
