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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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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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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Why do the sacraments exist? They are a means of healing. The sacraments are not a means of discipline, but a help for man on his life’s journey and in the weak moments of his life.
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'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'
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Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
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Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.
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I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.
