Beverly Jenkins Quotes

Neither am I. A grown man should be able to acknowledge a sincerely offered apology and converse in sentences consisting of more than five words.

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• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

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  • Job
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• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
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• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

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• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
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  • Good
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• Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
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• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
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• As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Time
  • American
  • History

• My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Good
  • Road

• It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Look

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

  

  Aeschylus
  • Done

• The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Good
  • Hypocrite

• I didn't realize people tip for take-out.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • People

• It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Communication

• I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Father

• Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.

  

  Brian Schmidt
  • Why
  • Free

• Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

  

  Sallust
  • Words
  • Beyond
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• It's funny how the littlest things can make you feel larger than life; the right lyric, the most heartfelt melody, the clearest message. Love.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Feels
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  • Heartfelt

• Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Great

• We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, 'Oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Football
  • Excuses

• Neither am I. A grown man should be able to acknowledge a sincerely offered apology and converse in sentences consisting of more than five words.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Words
  • Acknowledge
  • Sentences