Barry Jenkins Quotes
As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
Barry Jenkins
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
Oliver North
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
Patrick Fugit
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
Adam McKay
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
Laura Miller
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
Dakota Fanning
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
Fay Godwin
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
Larry Wilmore
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
B. B. King
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
Parker Stevenson
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
Edie Falco
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
T-Pain
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I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
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If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two hours here in Miami. Cubans in Miami would be the first to buy. In Miami, 80 percent of the people we sell to are foreigners. Havana is a city very similar to Miami... There's good music, good theater, good ballet.
Jorge M. Perez
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin
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I suppose I try to look for those things where the world turns on you. It's every automobile accident, every accident at a party, you're having a good time until suddenly you're not.
John Irving
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Your worst enemy is your best teacher.
Gautama Buddha
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Donald Trump, having spent decades in the public eye as an entertainer, may not understand what the nuclear triad is, or what America's 'first use' nuclear policy is, or why starting a trade war would be a disaster. But he does understand storytelling, the power of a clear narrative, and the importance of stirring emotion.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
Barry Jenkins
