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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The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
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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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He uttered a coarse expression which I wouldn't have thought he would have known. It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary. No doubt one picks up things from the neighbours - the vicar, the local doctor, the man who brings the milk, and so on.
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I think if you don't feel passionate about the first movie you're doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don't have enough experience to make the movie something special.
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There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it's not part of common knowledge. It's not how the world is taught to think about black women.
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People talk about the businesses of the future needing to be more agile and more responsive if they are to be successful. But this requires a deep change in the way organisations work.
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'To Kill a Mockingbird' wasn't about me.
