Jack Antonoff Quotes

I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

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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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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  • 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.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • Mother
  • Man

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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  • You
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Need

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Star
  • Couple
  • Actor

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • House
  • Cool
  • Rock

• 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.

  

  Barbara Lee
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  • 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.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Randy Newman
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  • Always
  • Blame

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Back

• Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

  

  Christopher Morley
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  • May
  • Book

• The dawn smiles, repelling gloom, At the dawn with violence, At every meet season, At the meet season of his turnings, At the four stages of his course, I will extol him that judges violence, Of the strong din, deep his wrath. I am not a man, cowardly, gray, A scum near the wattle.

  

  Taliesin
  • Strong
  • Violence
  • Deep

• Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

  

  Aesop
  • May

• I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of volume and I'm frantic. But I didn't want to be one of those people who's always talking in accents in real life, so I started doing sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Remember

• I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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