Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
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I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.
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I'm from a really little town called Quincy, five hours southwest of Chicago.
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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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Self-care is the non-negotiable. That's the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
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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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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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I always wanted to play with people's hair. I was really into 'The Golden Girls' and how big their hair was. I always had Barbies and Ken dolls, whose hair I wanted to play with and was always styling. I was very lucky - I never had to wonder what I was passionate about. I've always known that I'm really, really passionate about grooming.
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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 wish I had more of a game plan of how I'm going to, like, take down toxic masculinity. But I think that game plan is just going to reveal itself if we keep going. I think I need to keep plugging along, and it'll happen.
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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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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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We're all just trying to do the best we can with what we know!
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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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Confidence is sexy.
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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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I like people too much. I really do.
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I vividly remember D'Angelo's 'How Does it Feel?' as a song I listened to around the time I came out.
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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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I started growing my hair out when I was, like, 22, 23. I just stopped cutting it.
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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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Kristi Yamaguchi stole my heart in 1992, and I've never been the same since.
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I love 'Downton Abbey.'
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Aly Raisman doesn't have a podcast - but she should!