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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It's important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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It sounds boring, but I'm such a guitar junkie and a gear junkie. I'm always fiddling with my stuff. It's relaxing to me... I'm always pulling my stuff apart, getting my pedal board out and fiddling with it or changing guitar strings.
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Most meetings are too long, too dull, too unproductive - and too much a part of corporate life to be abandoned.
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Boston is pretty infamous for race relations.
