Elliott Smith Quotes
There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?Elliott Smith
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
Flume -
My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.
Zoe Kravitz -
The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
Adam Kluger -
To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
Olivier Megaton -
I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
Ted Naifeh
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
Edmund Phelps -
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
Dakota Fanning -
I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
Damien Chazelle -
I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
Samuel Larsen -
Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
Jack Valenti
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
Dan Rather -
What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
Mahershala Ali -
I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
Patricia Richardson -
我们的原则是党指挥枪,而决不容许枪指挥党。
Mao Zedong -
Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
Ben Jonson -
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
Lemn Sissay
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The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.
James Ellroy -
Coal has had a resurgence - it will be a major aspect of the energy review.
Alan Johnson -
I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.
Loretta Lynn -
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Aphra Behn -
There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
Elliott Smith