Barry Jenkins Quotes

It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

Barry Jenkins

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I'm an independent, probably. I'm not dogmatic. I've supported Democrats and Republicans.

Jerry Weintraub

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Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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The entertainment business remains a business of blockbusters, and increasingly so.

Anita Elberse

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I'm not trying to prove that I'm capable of doing many things.

Angel Olsen

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I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground.

Lizz Wright

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It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

David Tang

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Sleep is getting to be like gold.

Chet Faker

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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Alicia Keys

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My agents love pranking me.

Winston Duke

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I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

Selma Blair

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I got injuries already from fighting from guys that have been cheating. And you're never the same when you get injured like that. I mean, look at my hand. It's broken, it's got 16 screws in it. I'm not as strong in this hand. It just affects you, especially this body being my livelihood.

Mark Hunt

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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Mortimer Adler

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