Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes
I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.
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Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'
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In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.
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I'm me: I'm a fun, easy-going guy that likes to work hard, who's very driven and determined.
