Barry Jenkins Quotes
I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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I don't see myself as the king of Bitcoin. I don't want to be the king of Bitcoin.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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I've learned never say never.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
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What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.
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I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
