Jason Reynolds Quotes
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.
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Whenever I've not known what to do, I've always gone back to the Carter Family because there was nothing like singing with my aunts and my mom to my grandma.
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Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.
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I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.
