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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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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If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.
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When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
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Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the human race; the evidence of all facts that have yet been established in Geology coincides with the records of Sacred History and Profane Tradition to confirm the conclusion that the existence of mankind can on no account be supposed to have taken its beginning before that time which is assigned to it in the Mosaic writings.
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For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.
