Beverly Jenkins Quotes

To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

Beverly Jenkins

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• Learn from your dreams what you lack.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Learn
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Courage
  • Dreams
  • Inspire

• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movies
  • Dreams
  • Makeup

• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  

  Man Ray
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Determination

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Community
  • Writers
  • Colleagues

• I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Reality
  • Acting
  • Dreams

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Leadership
  • Blessed
  • Dreams

• Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Writers
  • Readers
  • Publishers

• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Live
  • Art

• For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Job
  • Dreams

• My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician because I didn't see myself doing or loving anything else as much.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Myself

• When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Violence
  • Religion
  • Dreams

• Nothing happens unless first we dream.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • First

• People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Clothes

• I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Advice
  • Belief
  • Experiences

• The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Fear
  • Evil

• You don't always need all of the bells and the whistles. I learned in my life, throughout my journey, that I'm enough. I don't need all of the extras. I just live my truth, and as long as I do that, I feel like I'll be good in whatever circumstance.

  

  V. Bozeman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Dreams
  • Writers
  • Human Condition