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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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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First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
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Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
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Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.
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Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.
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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.
