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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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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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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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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Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.
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I don't really like comedy.
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I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.
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The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.
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I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors.
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It is disconcerting that no one associated with the Guild has yet been able to provide a detailed accounting or basis for these fees, despite the fact that they come directly from dues and fees paid by Guild members, who expect the Guild's leadership and management to be dedicated to furthering the members' health and welfare.
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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I encourage you to look at the world around you and think about how it works. My friends, you can go forth and make this world a better place.
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Nobody feels like an adult. It's the world's dirty secret.
