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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• TV taste is an aftertaste. Whatever gets on the tube is always a foregone conclusion, a fait accompli. That is, any new ideas or social changes have already been fought for in the real world of the streets, or in the bedroom or even the law courts long before they reach the screen. By the time you see it on prime time, it's usually all over and done with, whatever it was. Television by definition is not avant garde. It is often reactionary and always sentimental.

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  Real, Law Courts, Ideas

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

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• Integrity pays, but not in cash.

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  Integrity, Cash, Pay

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

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• One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

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  Humor, Parody, Polemics

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• Hope is a dream deferred.

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  Dream, Hope

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• It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.

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  Capacity, Humans, Human Beings

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• History repeats herself.

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  History, Repeating History, Repeats

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

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• Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

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  Feelings, Use, Speech

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• Consumerism is our national religion.

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  Consumerism

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

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• I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

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  Clever, Sin, Accused

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

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• The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

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  Suicide, Children, Tails

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• The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

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  Cat, Cities, Sophisticated

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• I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

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  Art, Believe, Morality

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

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