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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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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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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For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
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If anything, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is a generic romance cynically engineered to appeal to the lowest common denominator of female fantasy.
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You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
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For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses.
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Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
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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.
