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.Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
Gabrielle Union -
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
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
Sam Peckinpah -
If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
Rafael Nadal -
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
V. S. Pritchett -
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 -
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
Karin Slaughter -
Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
Cameron Diaz
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson -
I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
Yves Behar -
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E. T. A. Hoffmann -
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.
Orison Swett Marden -
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
Karen Elson -
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
Vikram Seth
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
Orson Welles -
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Plautus -
I'm working in a form of cinema that can be described, and has been described, as a diaristic form of cinema. In other words, with material from my own life. I walk through life with my camera, and occasionally I film. I never think about scripts, never think about films, making films.
Jonas Mekas -
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
Benjamin Clementine -
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.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement