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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Cliches are what make you understand something.
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One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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We are the choices we have made.
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I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.
