Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Quotes

Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: October 21, 1984

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If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.

Andrew Stanton

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Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.

John Mica

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I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.

John Lanchester

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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease.

Roger Moore

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Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

Robyn Davidson

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I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

Michael Learned

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I think 'growing up' would mean that you are incredibly tolerant and easygoing, liked everything, curious about the world because you weren't so egotistically driven.

Louise Rennison

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I'm amazed sometimes by the Christians who don't really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

Joyce Meyer

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You're an actor first and foremost. No one is going to hire you because you tweet a lot.

Janina Gavankar

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I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.'

David Walton

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So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Boris Becker

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If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

Anne Graham Lotz

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