Austin Kleon Quotes
The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
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I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.
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Of course I party. Of course I go chase girls. Again, for me, balance is important. One hundred per cent, my work goes first. Martin Garrix is my main priority. But to maintain Martin Garrix, I have to enjoy my downtime.
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I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.
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The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning in front of others.
