Nick Antosca Quotes
Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
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The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
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The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented – and with a mature sense of the sacred – in Buddhism and Hinduism.
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.
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I usually start from the most general to the more specific. I'll get an emotional overview for the film as a whole, trying to pinpoint what the musical identity is and come up with thematic ideas - any ideas that identify as succinctly as possible what the film is.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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Senator John Kerry is in trouble for making a joke about soldiers being uneducated. As a result, Kerry promised to stop making jokes and stick to boring people.
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Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.
