Jack Antonoff Quotes
When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
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This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.
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I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country's future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
