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 saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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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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The first time you watch a movie that you like, all of the magic works on you. It's an experience of having a world unfold in front of you. But if you watch it again, you start to see where the seams are.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
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Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
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I have to be clear with myself and very conscious of what I am trying to say. Misunderstandings will always take place; it's unavoidable.
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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.
