Jazz Jennings Quotes
I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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Teachers alone can't educate young people.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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We live and die in the midst of marvels.
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If you intellectualize the idea of marriage, it can be quite daunting, no matter how much in love you are.
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I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.
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The more you are different, the more interesting. The more you are not like me, the more I want to get to know more about you.
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I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.
