Jazz Jennings Quotes
'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Paul?” I said. My voice shook a little. “It’s Jo.” Silence. I couldn’t tell what was happening on the other end. Then, very quietly, “Jesus.” “No, just Joanne, although I can see how you might make the mistake, coming back from the dead and all.
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We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?
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'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.
