Barry Jenkins Quotes

Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.

Barry Jenkins

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My dad had a flock of sheep, which he used to milk, and then my mum used to make cheese and yogurt out of the sheep's milk and sell it. It was kind of an unusual upbringing, really.

Joanne Froggatt

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In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.

Jesse Spencer

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Unite has a great dry shampoo called 7Seconds. After a hot yoga class, when I'm super sweaty I spray this on and my hair comes back to life. Miraculous!

Jennifer Morrison

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It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

Jenny Lawson

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An Op-Ed by a Republican criticizing the Democrats, or vice versa, is easy to come by and not that interesting. But a Democrat who takes issue with his or her party, or a Republican who does that, is more valuable.

Andrew Rosenthal

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Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.

Robert Gottlieb

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Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

Amy Sherald

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Tom Odell

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The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

Mike Huckabee

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I do believe we can do more to bring the U.N. closer to the world's citizen and make a real difference in their lives.

Miroslav Lajcak

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You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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