Richard Jenkins Quotes
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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Just like I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
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Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.
