Austin Kleon Quotes
Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.
Quotes to Explore
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It has been hard for me to find it, but I have found love.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
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In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.
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I really enjoy laughing at work, and I find that it's easier to do that when you're shooting a comedy.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.
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I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.
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As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in the street, it was more touch football, so we didn't hit each other into cars.
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When I find the right person, nothing else will matter, but I'm prepared to kiss a lot of frogs.
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I experimented and explored ways to find my own niche in Nashville, and I was having trouble with it for a while because stylistically, I didn't feel like I necessarily fit in.
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That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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We're probably looking at short term, that's from now until January. But there are also emergency loans which start from one month and can be extended to three so they are a possibility as well.
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I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, and I'll read every single thing about it possible. And then three days later, I'll just forget about it, and I'll be onto something else.
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The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more straightforward, I guess. But it just seems to be the parts I get, I don't know what that says about me. I enjoy interesting characters and interesting people, I suppose.
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Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.
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Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.
