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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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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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.
Nastassja Kinski
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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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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things.
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I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.
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Since I have an aversion to movies in which people say grace at the dinner table (not to the practice but to how movies use it to establish the moral strength of a household), the opening night montage of Sunday-night supper in one home after another in Waxahachie, Texas in 1935 - a whole community saying grace - made me expect the worst.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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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.
