Sam de Jong famous quotes

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.
-- Sam de Jong

#Exotic #Well Known #Wells

People link the 80s to that very liberal theme, growing up in a very liberal world, having ideals or not having ideals. The 80s were an confusing era.
-- Sam de Jong

#Growing Up #People #Confusing

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.
-- Sam de Jong

#Writing #Trying #Negative

We have all this digital equipment, and sometimes this analog stuff comes back and people say "Oh my god!" It makes a different sounding music.
-- Sam de Jong

#People #Digital #Different

The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.
-- Sam de Jong

#Zero #Thinking #People

I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.

Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most.

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.

I was weird right from the start. It's just that you can't ever expect people to get you. And I do think that really did mess with my head, being well-known young, when you really don't know who you are.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.