Stephen Malkmus Quotes
I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. Sadly, being taught literature often destroys the life of the books.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
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The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
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The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
