Beverly Jenkins Quotes

The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.

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• The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Hollywood
  • Promoting
  • Fashionista

• I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

  

  Ira Glass
  • Job
  • Wish
  • Day

• Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Dancing
  • Last
  • Sponsor

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• When people don't get enough information, they make it up.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Enough

• It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • Men
  • Religious
  • Greatest

• If I had any humility I would be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Would

• All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Fight
  • Daily

• Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

  

  Halsey
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Everything

• I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Business
  • Research

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • Money
  • Just
  • Admit

• At school, film-making had been the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. Then I get to L.A., and it's this whole other thing. I checked out.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Most Beautiful

• I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I get a handsome amount. I could definitely buy a car off one of my guest appearances. & I'm not talking about a Hyundai.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Car
  • Appearance
  • Bragging

• That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Fun

• To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

  

  Lily King
  • Different
  • Family
  • Feeling

• Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!

  

  Caedmon
  • Light
  • Firsts
  • Creation

• A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • True
  • Dream
  • Me

• Baseball is all about stories, many of which are even true.

  

  George Vecsey
  • True
  • Baseball
  • Stories

• The weakness of cable news is that it chases its audience around. Your audience wants fast-paced, popular news. It needs real news. Cable news changes its stripes based on audience reaction. Viewers are reacting well to breaking news? You probably do more breaking news than you need to. The struggle is building something so that people will come to you, as opposed to constantly changing what you are because you're unsure of where the audience is.

  

  Ali Velshi
  • Audience
  • News
  • Reacting

• The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Problem
  • Falling
  • Rimes

• The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Paper
  • Ridiculous
  • Test