Barry Jenkins Quotes
Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
Barry Jenkins
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
Tahar Rahim
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
Jack Kelley
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
Patrick Wilson
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
Lady Starlight
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer
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When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy of existing without fear, when so many things tell us we are not.
Clint Smith
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To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.
Neel Mukherjee
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
Yehuda Berg
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
William Cowper
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
Tali Lennox
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
Barry Jenkins
