Ezra Koenig Quotes
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Writing obscures language ; it is not a guise for language but a disguise.
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Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example.
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I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
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The HUAC did a deal with me. I was pretty much worn down. I had no money. I couldn't borrow.
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I've said before that when you win, people think it's so easy, but it's not so easy to handle it, and probably I expect myself to always play so good.
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Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
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Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
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The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.
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Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.
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Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.
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Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
