Barry Jenkins Quotes
There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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For a country to have a great writer … is like having another government. That’s why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.
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You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.
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The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.