Jon Lovett Quotes

Jon Lovett

Profession : Producer

Birth : August 17, 1982

I went into politics for the reasons most people do: ambition, self-righteousness, and a desire to help others.

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It is extremely chilling that Donald Trump views the spectacle of choosing cabinet appointments in a way that is similar to deciding whether or not to fire Lil Jon or Joan Rivers.

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It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

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I would like to be able to write in my own voice.

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I personally believe that Donald Trump being elected president is a national emergency and a crisis that stems from a great cascade of failures.

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There is an incredible appetite out there for in-depth, high-level conversations about what's going on.

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We try to talk when the microphones are on the same way we would when the microphones are off.

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I spent three years working at the White House and wanted to do something that wasn't about passing bills and resolutions.

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It's a reasonable thing to tell somebody, 'I've watched 70 hours of 'Game of Thrones.'' That's a totally normal, boring thing to say about yourself. But if you were like, 'I just spent 100 hours playing 'Skyrim,'' people think you're a weirdo.

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As a rule, I think people in L.A. are interested in any writer who brings a different skill set and experiences. There's an attraction to novelty and to anyone whose writing isn't based in screenwriting. I had that novelty.

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We are drowning in partisan rhetoric that is just true enough not to be a lie; in industry-sponsored research; in social media's imitation of human connection; in legalese and corporate double-speak.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

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I don't live in the city of L.A. I live in West Hollywood.

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I will never apologize for selective editing to make myself look better.

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If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of highlighting what's wrong with their argument or their position.

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We have a lot of really boring, silly, stupid politics. We need people to point that out.

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We need people to point out groupthink - We need people to point out stale, old, dumb thinking - and we sometimes need to do that when it's considered dangerous, strange, or, by some, offensive. And we should be, all of us, trying to protect that. It's really important.

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They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.

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I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.

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'1600 Penn' was a hit. It's 2018. Anything you want can be true.

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