Jason Reynolds Quotes
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash. I grew up with that influence while loving poetry and loving all kinds of current music.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.
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What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
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When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.
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At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?
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Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
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Better to sink beneath the shockThan moulder piecemeal on the rock.
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It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.
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My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.
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In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.
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I'm a bit of a chocolate snob, actually, since I used to work at a chocolate shop in England when I was really young. And since then, it's been hard for me to eat cheap chocolate.
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Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
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There are so many things I want to do, so many things I have to say.
