Stephen Malkmus Quotes
Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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New Orleans is New Orleans. It's a great city and fun and great food. It's one of those cities that when you are working hard hours like we work, you have to do as much as possible to stay out of trouble. Not much of a problem for me, but in New Orleans, trouble tries so much to find you.
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What interests me is the number of people who believe that they have the ability to drive the train and who think that this is the power position—that driving the train is the way to shape their companies’ futures. The truth is, it’s not. Driving the train doesn’t set its course. The real job is laying the track.
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L.A. is a great city to get lost in. The best thing to do is to drive in any direction, find a strip mall, and go from one store to the next. I guarantee you will see a collision of cultures you never imagined.
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Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.
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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
