Stephen Malkmus Quotes
I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
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I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
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There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
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I hear from many a man around Halloween that's dressed up as Mama for Halloween. It's a great costume.
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What he wrote was this: The great tragedy of my life is that in my search for the Holy Grail everyone calls True Love, I see myself as Zorro, a romantic and mysterious highwayman - and the women I desire see me as Porky Pig.
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Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
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You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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I spend a lot of time in California, but New York is still my main home. I go to see a lot of theater.
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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
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I just imagine that every song in and of itself is great, but when you add them all up, it's too much of me maybe.
