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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Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
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..countries pretend their foreign policy is based on democratisation when this is clearly not the case. For all the challenges in Zimbabwe, for example, it is a bit of a stretch to say it is less democratic than some of the sheikhdoms of the Gulf. But none of the sheikdoms has a problem visiting Europe.
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Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.
