A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge me. I always remember going up to visit someone in prison, and this woman was sitting there. She was looking at me, growling a bit, and I could imagine what she was thinking: "There's a pedophile!" Anyway, I later discovered about her character. And I'll tell you, it outweighed anything I'd ever done.' 'What had she done?' I ask. 'Shoplifting,' says Tam. There is silence.
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JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic.... JON LOVITZ If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the e... JON MEACHAM Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn... JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ... JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their... JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els... JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance. JON OSSOFF I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just ... JON BELLION I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa... JON OSSOFF It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha... JON MEACHAM I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, ... JON MEACHAM We played Carnegie Hall, and that was one time where I felt... Carnegie Hall as a legendary, very ve... JON BATISTE It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private ... JON MEACHAM If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for... JON FAVREAU We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings d... JON STEWART An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the reje... JON MEACHAM Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood... JON KYL I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay ... JON JOHANSEN I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You w... JON ANDERSON Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. ... JON FOREMAN I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libr... JON FELTHEIMER I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in ... JON KRAKAUER Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did. JON LOVITZ The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all ... JON ORINGER Bites are usually not random attacks by strays. The great majority of biting dogs belong to a family... JON KATZ