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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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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I wouldn't mind doing a film revolving around horses, but I wouldn't dilute my equity just sitting on one.
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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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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.
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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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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.
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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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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.
