Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes

I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

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• If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Hot

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • You
  • Know

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Look
  • Clothes

• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Trying
  • Art
  • High

• If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Money
  • Want
  • Foundation

• I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Morning
  • Try
  • Twitter

• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Always
  • Understood
  • Machine

• My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Brother
  • Sister
  • Army

• I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Believe
  • Long
  • History

• I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Home
  • Feel
  • India

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• There's some things you just have to live with. Like twelve cars camping outside your house, and when you wake up in the morning, they're going to follow you wherever you go. It helps that I live in Valencia. It eliminates some. But they're still here.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Live
  • House

• As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Woman

• I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Expectation

• People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Sources

• In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • American
  • Myself
  • Explore

• Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Stop
  • Dark

• Excellent creature! How my soul pants for thee!

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Soul
  • Creature

• People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • People
  • True

• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Children
  • War
  • Justice

• I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins