Jayson Blair Quotes
When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Actors, after all, dream.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.
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Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
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I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.
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I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.
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When we report stories, we don't just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
