Stephen Malkmus Quotes
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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I think that I have self esteem issues, really. If you really analyse it... People who really like me I have no interest in. The unattainable is always that I want to attain.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
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I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.
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My career is my girlfriend.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I really do think everybody can sing.
