#kin

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#humor #i #kind #like #sense

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#overrated #politeness

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. ↗

— Erica Jong

#actually #bad #enough #friends #getting

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. ↗

— Erica Jong

#because #between #criticizing #enormous #gap

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#same #speak #talking #things #two

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#america #become #cease #city #collection

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here! ↗

— June Jordan

#because #berkeley #came #century #colors

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#filmmaking #me

I took two years away from making films to write a novel. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#films #i #making #novel #took