Nick Zinner Quotes
Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
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If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
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'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
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Harout Pamboukjian is one of the biggest Armenian folk singers in the world. In the '70s, he was making these records that were really Zeppelin-influenced.
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The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
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I'm honestly kind of scared of horror films. My girlfriend always tries to expose them to me. Being in a scary movie and seeing all the fake blood and stuff definitely takes away from the magic and kind of humanizes scary movies to me now, though.
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I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.
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One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
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You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them.
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Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.
