Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes
It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
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We can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
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It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.
