Austin Kleon Quotes

Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.

Austin Kleon

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• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Like
  • Special

• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• I don't like to play the victim.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

  

  Sam Weller
  • House
  • Small
  • California

• Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • You
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Happy
  • Thought
  • Second

• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
  • Useful

• I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Know

• You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Animal

• I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

  

  David Antin
  • Dog

• I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.

  

  Kristen Schaal
  • People
  • Kids
  • Stop

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• Working on the plot/story idea for my next novel ... It always takes time.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Time
  • Story
  • Working

• Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.

  

  Austin Kleon
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Page