Ezra Koenig Quotes
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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Girls run the world.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping for his restaurant, and get that business going and then go out on his vending machine business.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
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I've learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I'm so focused on one thing. I think what's worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard and make friends. Those are my daily goals, and I feel like those are the things that create opportunity and creating connections that will then lead to other things that I may not have planned for otherwise.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.
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New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.
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It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
