Jonathan Van Ness Quotes
I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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I have on my bookshelf a book called 'Movie Monsters' by Alan Ormsby, a kids' book I got when I was in kindergarten. It started there.
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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
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We're the ones who arent normal. People are supposed to be like that: obedient, calm, working together. It's us-who can't focus, who can't work together, who can't do the Feeder or Shipper jobs-we're the ones who aren't normal. We're the ones who have to take the mental meds just so we don't go loons.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.
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I'm the youngest of three boys. Both of the older two are very heterosexual, football-watching, married, child-rearing, cornfed Midwestern guys.
