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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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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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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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.
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American music culture is black culture.
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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.
