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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In America, business is the first object in view at all times, and rightly it should be so.
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Our teen-agers withdrew to their bedrooms on their thirteenth birthday and didn't show themselves to us again until it was time to get married.
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My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.
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You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.
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Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.
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People feel really uncomfortable when there's silence.
