Jonathan Raymond Quotes
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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The world is always in movement.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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I like to do Pilates.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
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When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
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In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.
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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.
