Barry Jenkins Quotes
I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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When it comes to setting the market values, I let that stuff take care of itself. I know my value in this league, and I know the team appreciates me. I'm going to continue to make myself an indispensable part of this roster. When you do that, when your time comes up to get a contract, you usually get a contract extension.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I like being unconventional.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
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Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. Woman the poem, man the poet; woman the heart, man the head; such divisions are only important when they are never to be transcended. If nature is never bound down, nor the voice of inspiration stifled, that is enough.
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The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important cultural metamorphosis of our time.
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The US has given the world an example of a democracy in which everyone, including the most powerful, is subject to legal restraint. Its current moment of world supremacy gives it a priceless opportunity to entrench the same principles at the global level.
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No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
