Jonathan Anderson Quotes
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I've had and feel I have a duty to repay my good fortune through philanthropic endeavors that expand the reach of human possibility and compassion.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him – I'm Nathan Lane?
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I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me art. None of my family had ever done that kind of stuff either.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
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Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
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Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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I wanted to be heard, not seen. That's how it all started.
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There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.
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I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.
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A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.
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London and L.A. are both places I feel I can call home. It's a nice balance of Californian calm and that slightly more engaged, electric London vibe that I've always loved.
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There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.
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I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.
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It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.
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For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.
