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I have worked on very good movies that have been buried, and I've worked on some resounding mediocrities that have been paraded through the marketplace like they were masterpieces. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#buried #good #good movies #i #like

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#cattle #cowboys #done #friends #i

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#drama #find #how #i #i think

I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#belief #believer #causes #faith #i

My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#home town #house #movie #remote #small

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. ↗

— Erica Jong

#dumb #ever #guy #guys #hardly

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. ↗

— Erica Jong

#been #exploited #group #history #idealized

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55. ↗

— Erica Jong

#afford #beijing #bouncing #certain #chinese

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

#especially #fact #friends #in fact #love

Men and women, women and men. It will never work. ↗

— Erica Jong

#men #men and women #never #will #work