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.
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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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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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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 was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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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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The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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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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It is a false choice to tell Israel that it has to choose between peace on the one hand and security on the other. The United Nations would not ask any other country to make that choice, and it should not ask it of Israel.
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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 half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
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I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.
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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.
