Beverly Jenkins Quotes
The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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When people don't get enough information, they make it up.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
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I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.
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I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.
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To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
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Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!
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To be honest I'm not going to sell dreams like everybody else does and say, "Sure, it can be changed." I don't want to seem like a pessimist, but nothing's getting better.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
