Steve Albini Quotes
My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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I guess music is very global.
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When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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I don't think any of us can compete with Cowell. He is the best at what he does.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
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On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.
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In my opinion, nothing changes after you get married. If ain't broke, don't fix it.
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There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.
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I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.
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I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.
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Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.
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We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.
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My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.
