Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
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On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.
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I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.
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Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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Today it's almost impossible to do it unless you are an actress or writer with power... I wouldn't hesitate right this minute to hire a talented woman if the subject matter were right.
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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
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At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.
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'Come,' he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, 'come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats.'
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
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There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.
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If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.
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I've split out, played receiver, I've been a fullback, I've been in-line.
