Jon Ronson Quotes
There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Life in California is beautiful.
Oscar Nunez
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
Natalie Coughlin
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
D. J. Cotrona
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
Lake Bell
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
Harold Pinter
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
Gabriel Iglesias
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
Lake Bell
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
Patrick Demarchelier
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
Lara Spencer
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
M. John Harrison
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
Taylor Lautner
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
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I believe that all men and women will be saved.
Pat Buckley
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
Jack Vance
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People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.
James St. James
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I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.
Aubrey Plaza
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The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
Bruno Rossi
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There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules.
Jon Ronson