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.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • School
  • Law
  • Respect

• Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • Things Happen

• 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.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Media

• 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.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Father
  • Pretty

• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Garden
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• 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.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Moving

• I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.

  

  Zendaya
  • Beyonce
  • Diehard

• 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.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Forever

• 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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Fight

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Take
  • Turn

• Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Time
  • Comfort
  • Fools

• I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Decision

• The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'

  

  Pat Buchanan

• Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

  

  John Grierson
  • Society
  • Leadership
  • Appreciation

• Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, the missionary William Elliot Griffis 1843-1928, the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse 1838-1925, and the writer Lafcadio Hearn, and then for the marvelous reconstruction of how Japan worked on their minds, radically changing their perceptions of the country and the whole relationship between East and West--between the barbarian and the civilized. The book is a tour de force.

  

  Edwin O. Reischauer
  • Relationship
  • Eyes
  • Force

• In mid-2014, 51 percent of American Republicans viewed Putin very unfavorably. Two years later, 14 percent did. By January, 75 percent of Republicans said Trump had the 'right approach' toward Russia.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • American
  • Trump

• I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Feeling
  • Taken

• I grew up as a Christian, and one of the many things in Christian mythology that did not dovetail with real life is that human beings are not monochromatic in their being.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• 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.

  

  David Jenkins
  • People
  • Real
  • Archetypal