Stephen Malkmus Quotes
You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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As far as acting in films, there is not much out there that is very interesting to do. The ones that are interesting to me are independent films and they have trouble raising money. With people putting their money into blockbusters, there is not much left for the independents.
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
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All the music that I've made in the past I've believed in. I think some of it has been more commercially successful than others, but it wasn't premeditated.
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Who..who..who..who..who.. Let the Dogs out? It was never clear. Finally I get an answer!
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The enemy now began to appear from the mast-head.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.
