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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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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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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And so she lived…hopefully…ever after.
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Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier...
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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.
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The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.
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It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' wasn't about me.