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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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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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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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'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.
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There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.
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Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
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It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.
