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.
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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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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 always try to look for the hidden face of the character, the hidden face that we all have.
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In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
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The United States has a responsibility to defend our values.
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I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?
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I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.
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Know what it is that drives you - motivates you - and pursue it. Endeavor to work to make it happen.
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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.
