Jazz Jennings Quotes
Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Theatre gives you wings as an actor.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going to take time. So what's the shortcut? What's the better option?' Then thankfully, someone said, 'Why don't you become an actor?'
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I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.
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Ever since I could form coherent thoughts, I knew I was a girl trapped inside a boy's body. There was never any confusion in my mind. The confusing part was why no one else could see what was wrong.
