Jason Reynolds Quotes
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
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I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
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I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
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Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny – you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.
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I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.
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'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
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Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.
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A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.
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I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.
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I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.
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I wasn't raised with money, so I had to get used to having it. I think I've adjusted to it pretty well.
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Sometimes it's okay for careers to find you.
