Ezra Koenig Quotes
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
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Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
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I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
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I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
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Do your best and forget the consequences.
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There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.
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When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.
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The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.
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I love thinking of music of this way to access some kind of illogical realm filled with all kinds of aberrations and weird stuff. It's not implicit in music to have a story, so it creates this incredible potential for vague stories.
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I like how Ralph Lauren creates a mystical world through his clothing.
