Stephen Malkmus Quotes
I know the world doesn't need maybe another of a particular type of song - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.Stephen Malkmus Pavement
Quotes to Explore
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix -
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
Bebe Rexha -
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
Dan Hill -
I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
Warren Spector -
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
Cameron Mackintosh -
My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
Garth Brooks
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
Eddie Izzard -
I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
Lady Gaga -
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
Kate Winslet -
I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
Maika Monroe -
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian -
I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
LaTanya Richardson
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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
Ed Helms -
I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
Carl Forti -
…Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.
Anthony Burgess -
My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.
Alice Eve -
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.
Eleanor Catton -
When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.
Maria Sharapova
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I live in Florida and people are crazy here. And I say that lovingly.
Amy Seimetz -
To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
T. J. Miller -
I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.
Freddy Adu -
Great God! This is an awful place.
Robert Falcon Scott -
You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.
Emerson Fittipaldi -
I know the world doesn't need maybe another of a particular type of song - the same thing again - but you can't help yourself. And some people like it, but you kind of know in your heart that it's a lesser version of what you've done before. But maybe it has a good tempo, or it feels fresh, but it's still not.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement