Richard Jenkins Quotes
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.
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The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
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It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.
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I was always a bit of a class clown.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.
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My family had to flee Iran... the revolution, and we were very, very lucky to come to America and have opportunities presented to us. And that's... one of the things that makes America great.
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I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them.
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The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time. And if you live long enough, as you're increasingly likely to do, you may well join it.
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Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.
