Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes

Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.

Jim McKay

StoryThinkInterestingOwnWould

If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

Johannes Stark

WorkGreatDoneStructureHimLead

My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang!

Maya Hawke

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I think it's important that the President of the United States consult as widely as possible with those who have different views so that he can - he or she - can make the most informed decisions.

John McCain

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I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.

Spencer Tracy

PersonalityVoiceFakeBackActing

Any time you can take a book a little beyond the realm of pure entertainment, I think it's a good thing. But I don't really have it on my to-do list when I write a book. It just evolves naturally during the process of immersing yourself in a subject.

Mary Roach

GoodTimeYourselfBookThinkYou

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

Derek Walcott

TryingNeverWriteGreatestEnglish

The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.

Denis McDonough

ProudIndependenceCountryFirst

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

David Zinczenko

GoodDead

My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

Corbin Bernsen

TimeStressLawDoingEnoughRome

It's exhausting being a woman.

Colbie Caillat

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You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Claire Danes

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