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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#bands #biggest #concerts #coolest #coolest thing

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

In Blow-up I used my head instinctively! ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#i #instinctively #used

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#film #how #i #i am #never

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#europe #magnificent #maimed #medieval #mightiest

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#critics #eat #film #generally #i

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#based #because #belief #cancellation #change

I write my programs primarily for myself. ↗

— Bill Budge

#i write #myself #primarily #programs #write

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die. ↗

— Nawal El Saadawi

#life #death

Joy always came after pain. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#always #came #joy #pain