Jack Antonoff Quotes
When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I like things simple.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.
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To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
