Jonathan Ames Quotes

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.

Jonathan Ames

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 23, 1964

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From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.

Jim Lee

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Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

Jim DeMint

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I have such a girl-crush on Reese Witherspoon. I would love to do a comedy with her.

Jenna Dewan

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There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

Mercedes McCambridge

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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Meryl Streep

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I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

Steve Cropper

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Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

Mike Rogers

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Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

Jason Bateman

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The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

Joseph Jacobs

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I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Bob Marley

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We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.

Anohni

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