Janet Mock Quotes
I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell.
Janet Mock
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
Taylour Paige
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The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.
Viet D. Dinh
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
Caitlin Flanagan
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
Nancy Gibbs
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
Tamron Hall
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
Ralph Baer
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
Barbara Palvin
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
Laura Ramsey
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
Orlando Brown
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
Laura Ramsey
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
Walter Lang
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I want to keep playing good golf.
Bubba Watson
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Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.
Edward Frenkel
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
Wendy Kopp
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Having written both comedy and drama, comedy's harder because the fear of failure's so much stronger. When you write a scene and you see it cut together, and it doesn't make you laugh, it hurts in a way that failed drama doesn't. Failed drama, it's all, 'That's not that compelling,' but failed comedy just lays there.
Rob Thomas
Matchbox Twenty
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For me, hip-hop was a mirror when young-adult books were not. I could see myself in a Nas song more than I could see myself in a book.
Angie Thomas
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I still have a YA-genre-series type of a book in me that I really want to tell.
Janet Mock
