Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast) Quotes

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

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• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.

  

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• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

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• All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

  

  Barry Unsworth
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• Come on, we would be foolish to say that there's never been African-American leads in some capacity, people of color in some capacity, leading shows or what have you. But it hasn't happened enough and in a manner that is an accurate reflection of the world that we live in.

  

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• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  

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• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

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• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
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• All of the people are the dependents of Allah.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• When Pixar calls and says, 'Hey, you wanna be in a Pixar movie?' you don't do a lot of contemplating!

  

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• When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

  

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• A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• I believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.

  

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• I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.

  

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• The autodecrement is not magical.

  

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• I will never, never ever sing on stage, but when I'm in the studio, I do sing melody lines. When I'm working with singer-songwriters, and I hear melodies, I can guide them. I will be like, 'Oh no, do this this this.' But you will never hear my voice on a Martin Garrix track.

  

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• In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.

  

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• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

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• When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.

  

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• I didn't know that Left Eye's dad passed away right when she wanted to tell him that she just signed to LaFace Records. After I signed to Jive Records and just before I put out my first album, my mother passed away. It was very odd how much we had in common.

  

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• Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
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