Jason Reynolds Quotes
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
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I love New York. Love it.
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It was the closest to purgatory that I've ever experienced while I've been living.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.
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I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
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When Black Lives Matter started, it was polarizing.
