Ezra Koenig Quotes
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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Anytime I get down to Miami, it's a wonderful thing.
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True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, then pursue it with the enthusiasm of a hunting tiger on a trail. If I knew where I was going, I'd get bored out of my mind and stop writing.
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There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
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Instagram is just a highlight reel... Ten percent of the time, Chan and I have a lot of fun. Ninety percent, we're really boring.
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We women of America tell you that America is not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote.
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I used Atlantic like I was supposed to.
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When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.
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Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.
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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
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We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.
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When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
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You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think it has to move slowly, step by step. I pride myself on the construction of my stories but it's not something I impose on them.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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Working with people who are kind and who are good people really means a lot to me.
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I still to this day get the most inspiration from rap lyrics.
