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 get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
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Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.
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I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
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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.
