Jason Reynolds Quotes
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I like to accentuate the feminine form, so I'm a big fan of corsets. A woman's body is beautiful and should be shown off and celebrated. I love a simple and elegant dress that highlights my waist.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty . Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
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Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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It is not our policy to suppress success.
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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
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It seemed to me that I had mastered words to the point of sweeping away forever the contradictions of being in the world, the surge of emotions, and breathless speech. In short, I now knew a method of speaking and writing that—by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail—sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.
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He came your way And when he had to go There were roses growing in the snow Silently you'll go to the shadow of your soul And you know that it was like this before we had to go You will never see these lights Glowing in your nights Until you feel this way.
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' wasn't about me.
