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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We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.
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I remember seeing a movie with Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney where they were husband and wife, and they got in bed, and he had on polka-dot pajamas and she had on striped pajamas, and when they got up the next morning he had on the striped pajamas and she had the polka dot pajamas, and that was considered racy at that time!
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To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
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I honestly and truly love and believe in what I'm making, and it's not a joke, whereas some people would take a singer – songwriter sitting behind an acoustic guitar as sincere.
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Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
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It's one-of-a-kind, because some people would die to have the family I do.
