"There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly."

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Source : Jonathan Ames (2007). “I Love You More Than You Know: Essays”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Jonathan Ames

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“The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs.”
“Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.”
“It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.”

Source : Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch (2011). “Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.”
“I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.”
“I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 29, 2012
“I'm always going to have a story to tell.”
“For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world.”

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