Jason Reynolds Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey. I think I got it from my father.
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No pay, no Goldblum. That's it.
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God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
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When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad... it makes me look like a hypocrite. It breaks my heart. I would rather shoot a magazine and shoot my flaws, but that's not up to me.
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When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.
