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Barry Jenkins Quotes

I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.

Barry Jenkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1979

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Change World Always Everyone Engaged

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

Jim Harrison

Attitude Art Job You Your Rather

I'm influenced by Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace: writers who are often not content to just stack paragraphs and have to break out of that.

Jesse Andrews

Content Out Break Just Who Stack

Spike Lee really gave us a platform, men and women of color.

John David Washington

Women Men Color Men And Women Us

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

Stevie Nicks

Guitar You Down Hold Big Used

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Rita Dove

Life College Writing More Write

When people ask me where my roots are, I look down at my feet, and I see the roots of my soul grasping the earth. They are here... in the Southwest... I still live in New Mexico.

Rudolfo Anaya

Live Soul People Me Roots Feet

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Mary Leakey

Money Tools Drawing Stone First

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

Bryan Procter

Echo Even Radiant Speaks

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Arnold Bennett

View Down Go Hill Top Up

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.

Asa Gray

Name Living Matter Become Substance

I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.

Priyanka Chopra

Home Mom Bad Take Like Them

The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.

Suze Orman

Car Credit You Student Important