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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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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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 never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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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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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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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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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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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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I signed on as the clown, and, by golly, I'll keep up my end of the bargain.
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I made a ton of money.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.
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Some people might be surprised that 'Rambo's creator has a doctorate in American literature. One of my influences is Henry James, whose major theme is awareness. Whether I'm writing about military personnel, law enforcement, or De Quincey, the persistent theme is paying attention in a hostile world.
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Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.
