Barry Jenkins Quotes
Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly.
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There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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The phrase 'perception is reality' is overused generally. But perception can be reality in monetary policy. The bond market doesn't act merely on what it sees. It acts on what it expects of the Fed or the government.
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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people; for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.
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When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.
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You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking. You can no longer live with the faith you inherited from your parents or constructed earlier in your life. As you sort through your dogma and doctrine, you’ve found yourself praying less, less thrilled about worship, scripture, or church attendance. You’ve been so focused on sorting and purging your theological theories that you’ve lost track of the spiritual practices that sustain an actual relationship with God. You may even wonder if such a thing is possible for someone like you.
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The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.
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Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.
