Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
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I love 'Downton Abbey.'
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I was a chubby kid who got made fun of a lot, and I got fit in high school, and I stayed fit in my 20s, until my dad died.
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So often, grooming is meant to make you feel better about yourself, and a lot of times, we use it to make ourselves feel worse.
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My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.
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I wanted long hair my whole life. When I was a little kid, my mom would be like, 'We get our hair cut once a month.' So I just always got my hair cut.
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Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.
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I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.
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One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women.
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I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I'm forced to. I've been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn't make light of it, I would literally keel over.
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You want to be more hairy, that's beautiful. You want to be more clean-shaven, that's great.
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I like people too much. I really do.
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I love having the Olympic Channel app on my phone because I can watch old gymnastics videos any time.
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To me, self-care isn't really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.
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When I'm having a song-in-the-shower moment, I go to 'The Blessed Unrest' by Sara Bareilles.
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In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you're either positively or negatively charged. So if you're liking how you're looking, you're gonna be more positively charged.
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I'm just waiting for the first #MeToo moment to happen from a salon because the culture of how assistants are treated, especially in salons in L.A. and New York, is, like, truly unbelievable. You're expected to clock out for lunch and never get paid. You're expected to be there an hour early, stay two hours late.
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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!
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If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.
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Typically, you're not gonna find me out at night; I don't go to industry parties. Like, I will go sometimes if I'm invited, but usually, I'm, like, home by 11.
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In states where there's one really big city, a lot of outlying counties and smaller towns really don't have very many resources.
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I'm good at following my own grooming advice.
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I grew up in a little town where my family owned a newspaper and the TV station, so a lot of people knew who we were, and I never fit in.
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I was someone who wore bright purple sweatsuits with tall Doc Martens boots. I would iron Hanson decals on my sweatshirt. I was extremely flamboyant as a child.
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I wish I was a gorgeous mixologist, but that was not my god-given strength.