Trent Reznor Quotes
If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
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I'm very self-critical.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
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If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
