Trent Reznor Quotes
I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
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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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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there is almost certain to be some minority group offended.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.
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We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.
Garry Kasparov -
All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws
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I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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I learned everything about business and about music and stuff from being a second engineer.
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Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.
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I got cast on ER, I knew I'd be playing a great character and I knew the show was great.
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I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.
