Jon Ronson Quotes
Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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The Imam said that this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.
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Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.
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Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now.
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If there's one kind of music that makes somebody happy, how is that a bad thing? And if there's another kind that makes somebody else happy, how is that a bad thing? I don't get why anybody cares about what they don't like so much.
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That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.
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Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
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You can never lose a true friend.
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There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass out CDs. So when an artist from Natchez or Gold Coast or Meridian breaks out, they already know exactly what kind of artist they want to be. The grind and the hustle is just so adamant.
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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Emotionally, a person is tied to the land of his birth. It's only human.
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Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
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Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle.
