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

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Source : "Me and Mr Jones". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2002.

Tommy Lee Jones

#Morning Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Politeness Quotes

“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
“The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there's this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I'm always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“when you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever...”
“Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.”
“There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.”
“I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.”
“Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.”
“It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.”

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