Steve Albini Quotes
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.
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No doubt, I am earning more money with my endorsements than I ever earned playing soccer.
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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
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I've always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, I had my snapback; I had my v-neck. I still got them in the closet. I got my J's, my Forces; it was standard.
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When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.
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We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.
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We try not to have many investing 'rules,' but there is one that has served us well: If we decide we were wrong about something, in terms of why we did it, we exit, period.
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In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.
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The camera is the slave to the actor.
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I want to inspire people.
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I am a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas.
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To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
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The larger the prisoner's pain (the smaller the prisoner's world and therefore by comparison) the larger the torturer's world... pain becomes power... the torturer uses the prisoner's aliveness to crush the things that he lives for.
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If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.
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I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.