Jonathan Anderson Quotes
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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I believe in being an innovator.
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The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
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And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.
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We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.
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I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
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I cannot stand it when the French are asked in all circumstances to make sacrifices before the state cuts back on its own wasteful expenditures.
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I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.
