Barry Jenkins Quotes

Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

Barry Jenkins

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Growing UpWorldFeelYouGrowing

One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.

John Burroughs

SpringEarlyKnowGrassTwoSights

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

Jerome Lawrence

SoulMindWritingPointGutWhole

Perhaps the biggest economic shift during Obama's presidency came from a piece of legislation that wasn't sold as such. On March 21, 2010, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. It was Obama's boldest piece of legislation and the one that will most likely define him.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

CareBetterCongressMarchWillHim

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Robert Kiyosaki

MoneyCapitalismRichViolenceOut

I have always been surrounded by women with strong personality and feminine: my mother, my sister, my aunts, my friends. I am fascinated by the look they can have - simple details such as a step, a way of speaking, a gesture, a way of wearing a garment.

Jeanne Damas

MotherWomenPersonalitySimpleStep

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.

Tony McCoy

SportsMyselfThinkEnoughPerson

Today, few terrorist organizations still employ the 'al-Qaeda model' in which individuals travel to terrorist training camps overseas and then are deployed to the West to inflict atrocities.

Tom Cotton

TodayTravelTrainingWestStill

I approached Red Square three times, trying to find somewhere to land, before discovering a wide bridge nearby. I landed there and taxied into Red Square.

Mathias Rust

RedBridgeTryingFindThreeLand

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

PeopleSomewhereWebPayoffLed

I could make apple pie every single day. You need to be super precise in order for it to be perfect. I'm such a perfectionist that baking is calming for me. I've never burnt anything, thank God.

Julia Michaels

GodDayMeThank GodBakingYou

I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.

Louis Theroux

BackInterestGotGetLikeZimbabwe

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.

Chris Ware

MusicHonestyStoryThinkWayReal

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