Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

I seem to belong to a boom moment of playwrights, and I'm always curious about how we all got here and what comes next.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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MomentCuriousAlwaysBelongSeem

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.

John Engler

BrokenPeopleBetterOutWorking

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

Andrew Breitbart

SayAfraidRadicalBarack Obama

I don't know if I would use that word, 'trailblazer.' That implies that this huge crowd followed me, and that certainly is not the case!

Michael Bastian

MeKnowCrowdWouldWordUse

I am an activist and rapper from Afghanistan, and I use rap to speak out and help end child marriage.

Sonita Alizadeh

MarriageI AmChildSpeakEndHelp

In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

Robert Fogel

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There have been times where I've said, 'Jesus, I don't believe in you anymore, get out of here. I don't know. I don't even trust you.' And it's like, okay. And he's still hanging on.

Mike Yaconelli

TrustBelieveYouKnowSaidOkay

I've been told the best way to make a sexy face is to say 'pruuune.'

Liya Kebede

BestFaceSexySayWayBeen

Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9.

Dennis Ritchie

WorkPlanDoneEditingSoftwareAny

I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.

Chloe Sevigny

HateFashionFindBoringGoingThem

I'd gladly take a grenade, if it meant saving Newark.

Cory Booker

TakeMeantGrenadeNewarkSaving

Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who first bought those Mercs and Beemers, while Ben & Jerry's (now owned by Unilever) brought a post-hippy sensibility to bear. Buyers saw the brand as saying 'all-natural, organic and Fairtrade.'

Peter York

SayingBrandNameNowKindBear

Everyone's always telling themselves stories about their lives, writers or not.

Sheila Heti

AlwaysEveryoneTellingStories

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