Jack Antonoff Quotes
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I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I don't hang out with Ted Nugent.
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
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I was brought up on American films.
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Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high.
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I love dreaming!
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A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
