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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

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#i #only #political #political world #position

It's no fun to be a struggling young actor. It's a desperate thing, no way to be happy. If you have any alternative, you should take it. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#alternative #any #be happy #desperate #fun

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

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#directed #director #good #good director #good ideas

The most important question in American cinema, I've learned, is 'When is lunch?' ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#american cinema #cinema #i #important #important question

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#attack #intimidate #into #leading #make

You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#i #know #nice #nice guys #play

You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them! ↗

— Van Jones

#believe #black #child #columbine #done

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ↗

— Erica Jong

#fun #had #think #you