Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

Jesse Jackson

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At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

Matt Stone

EveryonePointRipped

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

Story Musgrave

CommunicationSpaceStartProblems

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

Mike Epps

LifeHumorThinkComedyAlways

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Jonathan Safran Foer

CarFoodCultureIdentityDriving

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Diane Sawyer

ThinkEntertainmentBeingI Think

In reality, every single negotiation involves another commodity that's far more important to us, which is time - minutes, hours, our investment in time. So even if you're talking about dollars, the commodity of time is always there because there has to be a discussion about how the commodity of dollars is moved.

Christopher Voss

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I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

Alia Bhatt

FailureSadTimeMeCareerHoliday

The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you're compatible or not. You find out what's annoying about that person, and whether or not you're willing to put up with that because you love them and you don't want to be alone.

Alice Lowe

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When I was a young child, professional aspiration was synonymous to me with the clatter of my mother's high-heeled boots as she went off to teach each 1970s weekday morning, carrying her graded blue books under her arm.

Alissa Quart

MotherMorningBlueChildMeBoots

The Russell side of my family is a clan with some serious genetics.

Wyatt Russell

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My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Peter Zumthor

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