Barry Jenkins Quotes
I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.
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I'm a horrible golfer.
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I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
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There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.
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It's hard to build a brand, competitively, and tell people what you do as well.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
