Beverly Jenkins Quotes
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
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I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.
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I think it was a gift. I was very disappointed in my skate.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.
