Janet Mock Quotes

I know how messy things can get when adults overstep their boundaries and insert themselves - their politics, their fears, their prejudices, their ignorance - into the lives of young people.

Janet Mock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 10, 1983

Topics

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Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

Joe Simon

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In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

Andrew Eldritch

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Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.

Andie MacDowell

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There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

Maya Hawke

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Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.

John M. Grunsfeld

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I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

Jeff Nichols

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Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.

Sugar Ray Leonard

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I remember starting to read about the Soviet Union when I was eight years old; I think I was reading my father's 'New York Times.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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There's so much talk of representation in politics and entertainment - it's everywhere - but I didn't realize representation was important until really my senior year of high school.

Tomi Adeyemi

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Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

Milla Jovovich

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I live in jeans, mainly Wrangler and Nudie. I like them as dark blue as they'll go and tightly woven.

Jason Flemyng

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I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.

Diana Quick

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