Jon Oringer Quotes
Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
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I eat hamburgers all the time.
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I'm gonna bring Bad Brains vibes 'cos that's what I do.
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Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.
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I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be.
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Each time I went to create my website, I needed imagery. It was complicated to get, the process was expensive, I had to negotiate rights. I knew there had to be a better way.
