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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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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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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I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.
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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it!
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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There's a reason I write articles and go out for good dinners: because I'm better at research than cooking. And there are people who are much better at cooking than research, so it's mutually beneficial for us to specialize.
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I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
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A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.
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When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.
