Jonathan Ames Quotes
I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
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It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
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My advice is don't scrub your makeup off your eyes; be gentle.
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Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.
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I don't want to make films for myself.
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My god! It's a hamster with explosives taped around it's waist!
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The way Jughead talks to Archie and vice versa is very much the way I would talk to my twin.
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With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.
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I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.
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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
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Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.
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From the time I was 16, I wanted to live in Paris. When I graduated college and didn't have a job, I went to take the LSAT because I didn't know what else to do. I walked out in the middle of the test and eventually found an internship in Paris at L'Oreal.
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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
