Barry Jenkins Quotes
It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.Barry Jenkins
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
Orson Welles -
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Irwin Shaw -
God doesn't know things. He is things.
D. H. Lawrence -
San Francisco, coolest place ever.
Imogen Poots -
A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
Kacey Musgraves -
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
Dana Rohrabacher
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
Dan Stevens -
Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
Oliver Tambo -
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Tamsin Greig -
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
Jackie Kennedy -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge -
All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
Walter Payton
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
Sam Elliott -
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson -
I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
Calvin Johnson -
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
Patricia Marx -
Being that I always perform, I started working out with a trainer to get that endurance and stamina. Now, I guess you could call me a gym rat.
Fat Joe -
You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
Manny Montana
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.
David O. Selznick -
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
Charles Evers -
It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
Barry Jenkins