Jennifer Stone Quotes

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• What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

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  Style, Speech, Who You Are

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• Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

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  Technology, Faster, Evolve

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Opinion is the death of knowledge.

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  Opinion

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• Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

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  Lying, Writing, Heart

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

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  Knowledge, Reality, People

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

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  Self, Rehearsal

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• Longing is all that lasts.

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  Lasts, Longing

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

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  Effort, World, Lines

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

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  Return, Alcoholism

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

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  Mother, Father, Eye

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• One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

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  Humor, Parody, Polemics

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• Integrity pays, but not in cash.

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  Integrity, Cash, Pay

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

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  Knowledge, Connections, Done

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• ladies are just those of us who have been silenced.

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  Has Beens

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• All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

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  Media, Mind, Literature

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

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  School, Dark, Rope

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• Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

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  Profound, Tragedy, Comedy

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

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  Real, Law Courts, Ideas

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• Hope is a dream deferred.

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  Dream, Hope

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• History repeats herself.

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  History, Repeating History, Repeats

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

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  Watches, Growing, Aging

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• High school was great when it ended.

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  School, High School, Adolescence

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• Perhaps society should give actors the same sort of protection it gives to those who follow a religious life. Actor/priest was originally the same job. The theater is left wing magic and theology is right wing magic.

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  Religious, Jobs, Wings

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• I do have an older brother! But you know, he and I have always gotten along. We've always had different aspirations.

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  Brother, Different, Aspiration

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• I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

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  Becoming The Best, Voice, Focus

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