Jonathan Ames Quotes

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

Jonathan Ames

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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ChildProfessionalAthleteTennis

I honestly don't think Peter is that interesting without Harriet - the only exception being 'The Nine Tailors', which is such a good book it doesn't really matter whether he's got a consort or not.

Jill Paton Walsh

GoodBookThinkInterestingMatter

TV is the best babysitter.

John Goodman

BestTVBabysitter

I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

Andy Summers

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I did look for compromise. I worked in a bipartisan way.

Stephanie Herseth

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As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

Tracy Chapman

MotherChildMeSisterThinkAlways

Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed.

Tom Hollander

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When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

Tom Lehrer

PeopleCrazyThinkDoingYouStop

I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.

Miguel Ferrer

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When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.

Dean Ornish

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Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

Plato

LifeHealthAttentionGreatest

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.

Scott Anderson

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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Thomas Jefferson

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