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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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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I talk about Beyonce too much. I am a diehard.
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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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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
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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.
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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.'
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I never thought anything like that would have gone on.
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Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.
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I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.
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You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
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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.
