Steve Albini Quotes
The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.
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I love so many styles of music.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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I've got a very interesting background.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
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If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.
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Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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It's been a twisty-turny path for me. I was studying to be a history professor, and then I left that, went to film school, and tried to be like my heroes, like, Spike Lee and Hal Hartly.
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The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.
