Trent Reznor Quotes
For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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Detroit is drunken idiots. It was no surprise to me. I performed with Kenny Rogers for one year as his opening act, and I got to visit every major American city and notice the audience, and Detroit was one of the worst.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
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Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.
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I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be killed, boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behaviour.
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For each film, you try to create a whole world sonically, having a sense of identity through instruments used, or recording techniques.
