Trent Reznor Quotes

When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails

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• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

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• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

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• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

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• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

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• I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.

  

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• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

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• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

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• People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.

  

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• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

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• For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

  

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• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

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• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

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• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

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• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

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• You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.

  

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• Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.

  

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• Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

  

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• Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

  

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• The blank page gives us the right to dream.

  

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• Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.

  

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• When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Rock