Jonathan Ames Quotes

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

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• Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn't matter how good you are.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Good
  • You
  • Beat

• For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Lies
  • Young

• I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Myself
  • Find

• The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • America
  • History

• I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

  

  Patrick White
  • Country
  • School
  • House

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Bad
  • Independence

• In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Should

• Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Real
  • Ignore

• Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Action

• Age considers; youth ventures.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Ventures

• DNA is a 'thing' - a chemical that sticks to your fingers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fingers
  • DNA
  • Chemical

• Quite many people have ugly hands, and I thought I should not feel ashamed about it.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • People
  • Thought
  • Ugly

• Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Rest
  • Natural
  • Records

• I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Technology
  • Architecture
  • Geography

• The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Suicide
  • Source
  • Passage

• In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

  

  Jonathan Ames
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