Jonathan Raymond Quotes
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The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.
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I have a feeling the writers who find screenwriting difficult are usually just not lazy enough for the job. They don't know how to stop before the task is done. I've always had a knack for leaving things unfinished, which makes screenwriting easier for me than most.
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I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.
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Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.
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Yo can’t reason someone out of something he didn’t reason himself into.
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I would never ever condone any violence of any kind. But in the theater of fiction, blood is delightful.
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Livability has always struck me as a consolation prize.
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I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
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I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.