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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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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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.
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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.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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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.
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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.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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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.
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Me.
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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
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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.
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I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore.
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Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
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I have done my best. I saw a fatal flaw in the camera industry. We did our best to address it.
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I just want to continue getting better and build as a player.
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We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.
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I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
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Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.
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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.
