Jon Ronson Quotes
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
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Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I like working. But now I have a deal with my wife that I take a half-day off each week.
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I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything.
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Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes?
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The playful search for beauty.
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But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
