Jason Reynolds Quotes
The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not been canceled, I never would have gotten 'Serenity'. I think 'Serenity' is the most incredible thing I've ever been able to actually get my hands on and do. I can't even tell you how much love I have for that project.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
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I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.
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The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.
