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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
-
After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
-
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.
-
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the 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.
-
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Writers are not meant for action.
-
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
-
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
-
Dreams grow if you grow.
-
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
-
All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
-
I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.
-
The whole world of Game of Thrones was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.
-
From the time I was twelve I was dancing for bread and butter, but in my heart I was always an actress.
-
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.
