Jonathan Ames Quotes
I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
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Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.
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I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.
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There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
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It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.
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As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.
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I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.
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It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
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I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
