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Jon Ronson Quotes

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: welsh
Birth: May 10, 1967

Topics

Smooth Entry Screenwriting

I would say New York, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles were my favorites.

New York Los Angeles New Chicago Say

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

I Am Thought Rat Out Pack Turns

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Future Science Hate Past Biology

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.

World Independent Up Own Set Studio

Kurt Angle and Matt Hardy... I have so much respect for them.

Respect Angle Much Them Hardy Matt

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Good Woman Short Enough Long Skirt

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

Mohamed El-Erian

Participation Barriers Falling Costs

My family's business was actually an amusement park in New Orleans. My grandfather had started that, and my grandmother was a dance maven in New Orleans. It was just the theatricality and the Mardi Gras and the pageantry that I fell in love with at an early age.

Family Love Business Age Dance New

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

Start Thought Trying Always Finish

I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

Mathematics Politics Sorry Game Look

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

Life Child Tears Name Enough Need

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Good Relationship People Believe Own

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