Ezra Koenig Quotes

It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

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• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Success
  • Strange
  • Quick

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Find
  • Theater

• I don't drink hot beverages.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Drink
  • Hot

• 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.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • Things Happen

• '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.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Sleep
  • Study
  • Curiosity

• The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Up
  • Constitution
  • Physics

• 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!'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Think
  • Know
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Always
  • Language
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • World
  • She
  • Age

• What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
  • Love
  • Job

• Girls run the world.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Run

• 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.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Idea

• My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Girl
  • Party
  • First

• Patience wins the race.

  

  Bernard Barton
  • Winning
  • Patience
  • Race

• Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Jesus

• The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.

  

  Wilfred Trotter
  • Attention
  • Ideas
  • Hoping

• We've all got a lot of catching up to do. I'm still learning how to act, for god's sake. When I see these old-timers on the Turner Classic Movies, I still get ideas, you know. That's where you really learn acting. If you really see some of these old boys working it and you say to yourself, "My God, if I could really do that that would be wonderful."

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Learning
  • Ideas
  • Catching

• I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Hope
  • Needs
  • Pockets

• It's cool to have instruments lying around because they give you different ideas.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Ideas
  • Instruments