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.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Roles

• Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Art
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Movie
  • Hate
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Building

• 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.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Work
  • America
  • Weird

• But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Me
  • Prefer
  • Smiling

• 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.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Love
  • Fall
  • Find

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

  

  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Looks
  • Wrong
  • Sounds

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
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  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• 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.

  

  Ed Asner
  • College
  • Thought
  • Acting

• I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Think
  • Nice

• Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Kids
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• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Children
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  • Irritating

• I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Work
  • Different
  • Game

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
  • Trump
  • Health care

• I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

  

  Kim Dickens
  • Job

• Demosthenes told Phocion, 'The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.' 'And you,' said he, 'if they are once in their senses.'

  

  Plutarch

• There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

  

  David Mason
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Question

• I got my own sound; nobody sounds like me.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Me
  • Sound
  • Nobody

• I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Like
  • Sound
  • Cheap

• 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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