Jon Crosby Quotes
I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on television or radio, I shut them off or leave the room.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.
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Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I do not buy CDs any more; I usually stream Internet radio. For movies, I hardly every buy any DVDS. I have a DVR, so just record things off HBO, Showtime and so on.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
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What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.
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To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.
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I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
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Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.
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My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.
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One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new work, and so to triumph over the dead weight of routine. I am the other kind... who only sees his way forward by standing on the shoulders of those who have already cleared the path ahead.
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I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.
