Jazz Jennings Quotes
If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
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We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.
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It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.
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If people are going to judge me without fully understanding the content of my character, then their opinion just isn't worth it.
