Trent Reznor Quotes
Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I'm always worried about everything. Like spiders.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
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The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.
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Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.
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In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.
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Try to find the right balance of keeping things exciting and treating your audience with respect, and also treating yourself as an artist with respect.
