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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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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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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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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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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Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.
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I'm a big believer in living out your dreams and facing your fears.
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To know how a character will behave in any given situation is a necessity and a gift.
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I'm a die-hard lover of high-waisted skirts with crop tops.
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I think it's refreshing when the people you're looking up to mess up just like you do, but somehow, things, in their own way, work out.
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I have had just about all I can take of myself.
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The danger is in using psychedelic drugs, just to put it out there, is madness.
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Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.
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Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
