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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What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
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I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.
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It's a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche. The author's position is an odd one. In a sense he is not welcomed by his characters. They resist him, they are not easy to live with.
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When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
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If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.
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I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.
