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It seems like the original 'Star Trek' could have gone on longer.
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Jonathan Ames
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 23
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Personally, I've never had it as a goal in life to be happy. Seems impossible to achieve. Even the Declaration of Independence seems to acknowledge this. They talk about the pursuit of happiness, not happiness itself.
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Whether I'm writing scripts or prose, the goal is identical. To give pleasure. Now whether I succeed or not is up for debate, and, mostly, I fail. But I try. I like to make things. It's a way to stay busy during one's ephemeral and confusing life.
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The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on
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I don't really know the person who wrote the things I wrote. I kind of know him, but I change so much all the time that it's like I start fresh over and over and over and over. Writing-wise and life-wise.
Jonathan Ames
I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.
Jonathan Ames
I wish we had a dog in the show so that I could get to be a dog for a day.
Jonathan Ames
There's no shortage of material in life.
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I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.
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How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.
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The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.
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I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.
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Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
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It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.
Jonathan Ames
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
Jonathan Ames
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
Jonathan Ames
One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.
Jonathan Ames
My sophomore English teacher encouraged me to write for the school paper, and that's what got me started. Suddenly it struck me that being a writer could be a romantic and adventurous position. Previously, I had thought I would be a tennis pro, giving lessons at a local club. I thought that would be a good life, and it might have been.
Jonathan Ames
I hid my underwear beneath a parked Peugeot.
Jonathan Ames
I enjoy both TV writing and novel writing, and they are very similar. The goal is to entertain and amuse the audience, and I subscribe to this P.G. Wodehouse piece of advice: Try to give pleasure with every sentence.
Jonathan Ames
I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.
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