Jon Ronson Quotes
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I'm hard of hearing. I miss a lot. It's really tough.
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The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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I don't think I'm an actor who takes their characters home with him. But I certainly do take the preparation home.
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My ultimate goal is to become a saint.
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
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I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.
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Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
