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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: December 29, 1984

Topics

Work People Me Writing Theatre Feel

There are problems in doing television that have been plaguing me for years. I really like to have a lot of time, to rehearse and make things as good as they can be, but television often doesn't allow for that.

Joel Grey

Good Time Me Problems Doing Years

There's something to be said for embracing who you are.

Jeff Probst

You Said Something Who Embracing

As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.

Tony Evans

Start Bible Confused Meant To Be Get

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Tom Holt

Lawyers Grey Predators

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.

Joseph Butler

Alone Cool Care Self-Love Security

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

Colin Trevorrow

Love Time Childhood Someone Place

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you don't start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Colleen Haskell

Time Waiting Wait Start You Ready

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Connie Britton

Degree Whole Background Some Theater

You put your heart and soul into something and it makes you a little bit vulnerable.

Ashley Tisdale

Heart Soul You Little Something

I kinda feel like if I can do what I like in New York - and I like New York, I was born in New York, I have a lot more of a connection to New York - the hope is to stay in New York.

Wyatt Cenac

Hope New York Feel Connection Born

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

Content Without Being Who Most

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Luther Burbank

Nature Judge You Jury Own Laws