David Jenkins Quotes
I really like these two people. They're iconic. They're archetypal. They're real, regular people, and the play resonates so much because of that.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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There are some who believe that secularism and Islam are not compatible. But Muslims should show everyone that this is not the case. It's up to them to show that you can be French and Muslim and still respect secular rules.
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I ought to be more hardboiled; I'd like to be. I don't think I have it in me. To write in clipped sentences. To employ gritty metaphor in the introduction of sultry blondes... I can't do it, so why bother trying?
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Physical comedy and musical theatre were never actually in my main focus at school. I was more of a dramatic actor. I always thought I was better at that.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.
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I really like these two people. They're iconic. They're archetypal. They're real, regular people, and the play resonates so much because of that.
