Jonathan Raymond Quotes
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 read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You don't know how to explain to them that the time when you feel alive or present is when you are writing.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.
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It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
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I'm not a chef. I haven't created any new technique in the kitchen. I'm not a rocket scientist. I think I'm good at writing accessible, fun, and affordable meals for the average American family. That's what I think I'm good at.
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I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.
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'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'
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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
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You are happily being misunderstood in your use of the word 'God'.
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I've grown this mustache which saves me from having to glue on one every day in the heat.
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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
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Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.
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Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.
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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.
