Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?
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It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.
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When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world.
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Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.
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It's one-of-a-kind, because some people would die to have the family I do.
