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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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 think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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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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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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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
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When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.
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There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
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It's nice to share something you're really proud of and worked hard on.
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Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between sleep phases, sleephackers experiment with various diets, room and body temperatures, and kinds of pre-sleep physical exercise.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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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.
