"There are so many talented young writers named……" — Jonathan Ames
"There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly."
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41 Quotes by Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames has 41 quotes on this site.
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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on…
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I was aware that I was acting atrociously but I couldn't stop myself. Rarely had I behaved in such a…
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I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
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I wondered where the person was who had taken my place, who wanted to know what news people had been…
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I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
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How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning…
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To write about a place, you have to live there.
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I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.
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A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and…
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As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.
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For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.
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Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because…
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More Comparison Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who…
— Erykah Badu
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale…
— Bob Barr
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
— Brendan Behan
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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