Stephen Graham Jones Quotes

In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story.

Stephen Graham Jones

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LoyaltyStoryEnoughHorrorEvents

Your stereotypical L.A. Persian kids were not working at Sbarro pizza in the mall, but I was.

Maz Jobrani

PizzaMallWorkingKidsYourWere

Just being out in the world, you see so many things, and every day, you experience so many concepts and different people and their coolness and weirdness. It's a feast of ideas.

Ann Wilson

ExperienceDayPeopleIdeasWorld

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

Steve Zahn

LoveLiveHistoryWarRevolution

I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.

Simon Schama

ChildrenGreatTimeI AmOpinionAm

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

Shirley Knight

CharacterMeSpeakThingsJust

Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Mary Baker Eddy

HealthMindMatterCondition

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

Mary Ellen Mark

WorldRealityInterestingNothing

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

Mike Mills

MemoriesGriefTogetherMemoryRich

When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.

Michelle Forbes

GoodTogetherStoryDoingWantSee

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Douglas Coupland

CatsPetNowSizeDoubleWere

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well.

Chris Lowe

PeopleTryingYouTelevisionKnow

I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.

Ariel Sharon

SonPeopleBornLandIsraelCome

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