Jonathan Anderson Quotes
For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
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I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
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Twitter's more fast-paced. Instagram, it's more, like, lifestyle and posting very specific, cool pictures.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.
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I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.
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Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
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Oh man, I would definitely love to work with Kanye on something. But it really is all up to him, so whatever he wants to do, I'm with it.
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I will never be a career actor, I don't think. I don't feel that I have the skill set to jump into it that way, although I wouldn't mind giving it a try.
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Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
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Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record than their works; no preconcerted theory described the workings of the imagination to be without imagination, nor did they venture to teach how to invent invention.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.
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If i have done well and you're awe stirs pause, give great shout in this actors cause.
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Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:A thousand critics shouting: 'He's unknown!'
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.
