Barry Jenkins Quotes

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

Barry Jenkins

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LifeStruggleYourselfThinkYou

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

Johannes Tauler

GodYouCreationTeachYourSins

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

Jenna Fischer

JobCrazyBackLos AngelesNewspaper

I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.

John McEnroe

GolfPlayWhoHappenedMuchGuys

My character in 'Fanaah' has a cool and crazy look at the same time. I'm very particular about my accessories and clothes and love discussing and working on the look with the team. We all work on it together and gather loads of references.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

WorkLoveCharacterTimeTogether

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

Steven Seagal

WorkCulturePeopleWorldChance

I don't do interviews under false pretenses.

Tom Stoppard

FalseInterviewsPretenses

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Lucille Ball

LiveTruthHopeMyselfBookThink

I took to saying, 'Look, tell you what: Pick it up; open it anywhere. Read three pages. If you can put it down again, I'll pay you a dollar. So I never lost any money on that bet, but I sold a lot of books.

Diana Gabaldon

MoneySayingYouLookDownThree

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

Deepak Chopra

ExperienceSoulMemoryPeopleKarma

I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.

Dawn Richard

ParentsHomelessLoseHouseBirth

I think you have to have the talent, and guys have to believe in what you're doing. Everybody has to play to the end.

Chris Harris, Jr.

TalentBelieveThinkEndDoingYou

This has become a bugbear of mine: the difference between geek and nerd.

Alice Eve

BecomeDifferenceGeekMineNerd

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