Jason Reynolds Quotes
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance in life.
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For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be.
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Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.
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If you feel like you have no other option in life but to follow your musical path, then do it. If you are talented and focus all your energy on becoming better and furthering your career and never give up, something will happen. I'm not sure what will happen, but it is guaranteed that you will do more than if you didn't do all that.
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Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.
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I guess I'm getting older. I hate to say it, but I guess I am.
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We've always been told to pretend as if we're not afraid.
