Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.

John Gokongwei

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I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.

John DeLuca

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One of the advantages of playing in a club is that even with bass and drums, the atmosphere remains intimate with the audience.

John McLaughlin

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By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

Steve Buscemi

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The drama teacher that I had in high school, back in Texas, was the only teacher who didn't kick me out of his class. He turned me on to 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.' I had picked up Dylan with 'Bringing It All Back Home,' and he turned me on to the first couple of albums, which I hadn't heard.

Steve Earle

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The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better.

Shura

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I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

Tori Amos

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Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Mason Cooley

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I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

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I like circle time and school drop-off. And I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand.

Christine Taylor

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It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

Brian May

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