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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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact. It is a statement of faith.
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The thrill of doing 'Good People' is I love those kinds of stories, and I'm good at them, and it's wonderful to see that material given to a terrific director and a terrific cast.
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Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.
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A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.
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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
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I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
