Jonathan Ames Quotes
I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
Quotes to Explore
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I've never liked rehearsing too much.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.
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Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
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Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.
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I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.
