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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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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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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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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You exorcise the things that haunt you. That's one good thing about any artistic discipline.
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I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use
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Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.
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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.
