Jonathan Lethem Quotes
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
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I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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Videos are a very difficult medium to be good at and also a difficult medium to consume quickly.
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Like any relationship, a marriage does take work.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
