Jonathan Lethem Quotes

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Jonathan Lethem

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1964

Topics

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I was into sports and dancing. I ran track. I have a lot of stamina.

Jennifer Lopez

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If people ask me, 'For you, what is your most important film?' I have a feeling that they all sort of want me to answer with one of the Bergman films. But I cannot choose.

Max von Sydow

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Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.

Ann Aguirre

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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

Mary Astell

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We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about.

Jason Silva

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Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.

Jasper Carrott

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The mint julep may be sacred in the South, but so is college football, and that doesn't stop us from enjoying it.

Jonathan Miles

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Production is the only answer to inflation.

Chester Bowles

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My mom was a cheerleader and had me as a teenager. I remember her giving me some pom-poms and teaching me how to do some splits when I was 3 or 4.

Christina Milian

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When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.

Brendon Urie

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Woody Guthrie

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