Jennifer Stone Quotes

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What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

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Style, Speech, Who You Are

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Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

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Technology, Faster, Evolve

Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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Opinion is the death of knowledge.

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Opinion

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If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

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Knowledge, Reality, People

Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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Love is all there's time for.

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Love Is

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Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

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Light, Sorrow, Rubbish

Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

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Media, Mind, Literature

Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

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Lying, Writing, Heart

Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

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Self, Rehearsal

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Longing is all that lasts.

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Lasts, Longing

Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

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Effort, World, Lines

Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

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Return, Alcoholism

Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

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Mother, Father, Eye

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married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

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Loneliness, Married

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As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

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Art, Mirrors, Culture

Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

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Mother, Tissues, Scar

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When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

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School, Dark, Rope

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if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

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Men, Stopping, He Man

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movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

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Movie, Taken, Mood

Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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Films tend to argue in favor of whatever they show.

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Movie, Favors, Arguing

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... romance is unsatisfactory as a religion. It is no use looking for the infinite in the eyes of another.

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Eye, Romance, Use

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In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

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Sex, Biblical, Views

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There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

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Pain, Two, Littles

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Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder.

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Profound, Tragedy, Comedy

Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

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Television, Shapes, Tvs

Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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Born: February 12, 1993
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