Barry Jenkins Quotes

How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.

Barry Jenkins

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MeMomFeelPersonalMeanReal

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

TruthEffortClimbYouDownBring

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

Stephen Kinzer

BestTogetherBelievePoliticalFact

Public, noncommercial broadcasting is also giving kids social-emotional skills like persistence and self-control that are fundamental to success in school, not to mention in the military, the institution where I spent most of my career.

Stanley A. McChrystal

SuccessPersistenceSchoolGiving

I always had an interest in seeing people within their environments.

Roger Deakins

PeopleSeeingAlwaysWithinInterest

Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.

Roger Penrose

UnderstandingDaysTheoryWellBeen

My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.

Robin S. Sharma

LifeSimplicityTeamFlyEnergyYou

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Rodney Atkins

CapBallWithoutGuessWeddings

Netflix shook it up, brought this whole new generation of people who said, 'I watch things when I want to watch, how I want to watch, where I want to watch, and that's something that no one's going to ever forget.' This has changed the game completely, and I think it's the tip of the iceberg.

Mike Colter

PeopleGameThinkGenerationNetflix

The problem for me was, I lived my childhood in my 20s. You should really try to live your childhood when you're a child, because if you do it when you're 26, it can be dangerous.

Mike Lookinland

LiveChildhoodChildMeProblemYou

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

Mitt Romney

MarriageRelationshipTimeWomanMan

Everything I do creatively is never for money.

Logic

MoneyNeverEverythingCreatively

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

Jason Mitchell

GoodSchoolPeopleMeActingKnow

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