Trent Reznor Quotes
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
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Certain scripts require an ensemble cast. I'm absolutely fine with that. I will not deprive myself of the chance to be part of a good film because of insecurities or fear of losing my market. But my role must be well-defined.
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When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you'll create the talent.
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General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets.
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I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!
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I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.
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A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.
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I was very happy being education minister and deputy to John Cain.
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Idleness is the parent of psychology.
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
