Jason Molina Quotes
I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.
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Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
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I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.
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"the most important part of open source is that people are allowed to do what they are good at" and "all that diversity stuff is just details and not really important."
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The number of people who believe in stopping violence in the world is wildly greater than those that want to perpetrate it. When everybody has a smartphone, the ability for people to actually do something about violence goes up significantly.
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I believe in doing vinyl. As long as vinyl can still be made into a high-quality standard, I'm going to still make all my records as a side A and a side B because that's how I grew up listening to music.
