Jack Antonoff Quotes
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I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I'm about my characters.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
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A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.
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When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.
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I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
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I'm not super into sports.
