Trent Reznor Quotes

My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

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• The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

  

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• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

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• The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.

  

  Edd Byrnes
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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

  

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• I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.

  

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• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
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• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
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• When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

  

  Zoe Sugg
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• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  

  Zane Grey
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• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
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• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

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• Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
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• In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.

  

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• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that was just his mug - and I inherited it.

  

  Ben Foster
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• Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.

  

  Blake Shelton
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• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  

  Emile Zola
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• My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

  

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