Jason Reynolds Quotes
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
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Grease is the only cure for a hangover.
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Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
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The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
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The first 'Monsters, Inc.' represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.
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Sometimes you want things so bad you will kind of lower your standards, and I've learned that once you do that, it's really hard to go back, to get people to respect you and respect your craft.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.
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Boston is pretty infamous for race relations.
