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Ezra Koenig Quotes

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 8, 1984

Topics

Great Year Born Up I Was Born Dad

A lot of people think the best work I've done was nonfiction - the 'Brothers and Keepers' book. But I think of myself as a fiction writer. And I think, if my work is put in perspective, all the books would be a continual questioning of what's true and what's not true, what's documented and what's not documented.

John Edgar Wideman

Work Myself Best Perspective People

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Reading Classics Like Virginia Also

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

Love Power Speak American America

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

Truth Challenge Enough Long Find

Let's not pretend we have too much of a democracy here, because we don't.

Steven Van Zandt

Democracy Too Much Pretend Here Much

I'm not a celebrity. I'm just the same Simone. I just have two Olympic Gold medals now.

Gold Now Celebrity Two Same Medals

I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.

Roberto Azevedo

Growth World Believe Development

There's something to be taken from every job, whether it's crap or good. Sometimes, on the awful ones, I get more of an education about other areas of my business.

Education Good Business Job More

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

Writing Play Involved Still Songs

Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

Jonathan Krisel

Work Best Goal Director Out Get

The Knack were a very, very powerful band, and you got to understand, when they came in, all the punk stuff was still going on. There was an amazing conflict within the scenes.

Amazing Conflict You Powerful Band

I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

David Steinberg

School New York Me Writing Comedy

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