Jack Antonoff Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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I love flying.
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I love working with women.
