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" The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter. "
Jon Ronson
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" I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly. "
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" Film is like a casserole. Everybody is thrown into a pot, and we're all in it together. "
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" Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans. "
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" Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin. "
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" There was a kind of infiniteness to fiction that I found sort of... disconcerting. I remember having these really panicky thoughts, like, 'I can make this person say anything. I could make him do anything! I could put a jetpack onto his back and shoot him into space!' I don't like this feeling of having no rules. "
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" Film people can be quite ruthless and tough. I think it's because the industry is filled with talented, driven people chasing nowhere near enough work. "
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" Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad. "
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" In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent. "
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" I just don't think I'm very good at fiction. "
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" Film isn't a meritocracy; there's no system ensuring the best screenplays get produced. It's a hustle. "
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" If I interview somebody for an hour, I'm looking for four amazing minutes. "
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" I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. "
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" I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves. "
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" Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face. "
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" I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person. "
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" Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him. "
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" Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. "
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" There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. "
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" My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now. "
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" Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S. "
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" Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished. "
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" Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible. "
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" Success is always less funny than failure. "
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" I consider myself a social justice person. "
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" Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. "
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" The phrase 'misuse of privilege' is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It's becoming a devalued term, and it's making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing between serious and unserious transgressions. "
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" In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble. "
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