Serj Tankian Quotes
I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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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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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
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The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.
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She's an all-round friend and she's incredibly loyal.
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With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
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I think every artist should follow their vision; their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. That said though, I think also artists have, continuously good artists, have been good for their times.
