Jason Reynolds Quotes
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When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?
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When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.
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I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.
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It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.
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I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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There came one who spoke of the shame of Jerusalem And the holy places defiled; Peter the Hermit, scourging with words. And among his hearers were a few good men, Many who were evil, And most who were neither, Like all men in all places.
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If General Motors is worth $60 a share to an investor it must be because the full common-stock ownership of this gigantic enterprise as a whole is worth 43 million (shares) times $60, or no less than $2,600 million.
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When a song is written, depending on who wrote what, the percentage split between the writers and performers must be agreed. In a democracy, e.g. New Order, it was all split into quarters, 25 per cent each, and the same for the performance royalties. This stayed the same up until Republic, when Barney decided he wanted more, and truth be told, he deserved it. He was doing two jobs.
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Live simply so others may simply live.
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I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.
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I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.
