Stephen Malkmus Quotes

Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.

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• Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Life
  • Long
  • Hair

• I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Nature
  • Awards

• I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Feeling
  • Humor
  • Perception

• 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fun

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Time
  • History
  • Leadership

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Money
  • Want

• I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Up
  • She
  • Reading

• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Down
  • Trees
  • Graceful

• One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

  Hafez
  • God
  • Myself
  • Christian

• Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • New
  • New York

• Love stories should be relatable.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Should

• Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Character
  • Interesting

• 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Favorite

• I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Because
  • Shy
  • Twice

• Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Peace
  • Body
  • Emotions

• There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

  

  Gerald Kersh
  • Moment
  • Hates
  • Torment

• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Teacher
  • Standards
  • Consumers

• After leaving Evanescence, I dealt with a lot of sh--, then being diagnosed as bipolar, and my heavy drug use and rehab ... this record went through all that with me, so making it was a complete catharsis, ... I'm focusing on me and getting the unhealthy things out of my life, which isn't always an easy thing to do, but that's been my main focus right now. I'm still on a journey, you know, but I'm a lot happier now. I can sleep easier.

  

  Ben Moody Evanescence
  • Sleep
  • Journey
  • My Life

• This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Heart
  • Existence
  • Stranger

• I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Names
  • Brown
  • Yellow

• Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.

  

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