Jason Jones Quotes
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
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The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
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People feel really uncomfortable when there's silence.
