Tom Junod Quotes

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

Aretha Franklin does not like me.

I don't hate Trump, but he's not somebody I admire.

I hated 'Avatar' from the jump. And I like James Cameron. I'm not opposed to James Cameron.

I'm the kind of person, if I don't like you, unfortunately you know that.

Not everybody likes Ed Reed.

I'm not a fan of Stillwater.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

When one crosses over from an activity, or the verb, of writing or doing, and becomes a noun, like "a writer" I think that is an act of supreme self-consciousness that I've never, in effect, made. I write, but I don't like to think of myself as a writer. I think it's somewhat self-aggrandizing and pretentious. Now, I am a teacher.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

I'd like to thank God for making me an atheist.

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another.

I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.

Sometimes I identify myself as 25 and I dare someone to tell me different!

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

I think of myself as a human being first and foremost, and secondly as a person whose profession is acting. If people want to make that into something more or less, that's up to them.