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'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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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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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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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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To me one man is worth ten thousand if he is first-rate.
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My education is going to take me 10 times further than my athletic ability.
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I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.
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Pressure brings out the best in me. It's the only way to keep improving: putting a bit of pressure on yourself.
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My nation faces a fundamental challenge - survival. The regime is more threatened than ever before. My forefathers had it easy. The Great Leader, my grandfather, ruled with the support of the world's other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union, as well as our China. But today, the Soviet Union is history and China has become more integrated with the Western system. And the United States seeks regime change in my country. And yet, we have survived with our ideology and system intact. How? Because we have built a protection for ourselves in the form of nuclear weapons.
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It's one-of-a-kind, because some people would die to have the family I do.
