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 reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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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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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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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 made a decision that I wanted to do five years of classical theatre before I did anything else, which was a very unfashionable thing to do.
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And you look at what you did wrong because I guarantee you they're going to know everything we did wrong. The opportunities they missed. . . . I'm sure they're looking at that.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
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Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.
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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.
