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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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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.
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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.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
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I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
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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.
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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.
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I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
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I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.
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I don't think that would be entirely unfair. There are some things which get on one's nerves and some things that don't. And I'm, to use a rather journalistic word, allergic to the things that are typically American. I think that's fairly natural to someone who has just been described as a Tory and is always ready to describe himself as a High Tory.
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American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?
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I think that U.K. audiences, in general, are very closed off. Very judgmental.
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We did not take into consideration how the community felt about P.S. Jones. Since, ... I've had time to reconsider.
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There's some records that sell millions of copies, that it's really unclear if anybody liked it who was making it, y'know?
