Barry Jenkins Quotes
Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.
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We really have to think of reasoning the way we think of romance, it takes two to tango. There has to be a communication.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
