Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes
How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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All I want to do when I have time off is to have a laugh with my school friends and go down the pub.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.
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The most important thing to realize is we're not blank slates at birth. We don't start off with nothing in our heads, and then get imprinted entirely by our environment. There's something in our heads on the day we're born, and then we grow up and make choices.
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No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
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I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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The decision I've made has come from my heart. That's me, to follow my heart.
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How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.
