Barry Jenkins Quotes
To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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God bless nannies.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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I will sell all other things before JYSK. That's my baby, and you don't sell your baby.
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It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so hard came together and things fit and we've got a real space station.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
