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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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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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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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.
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I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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An actor should be judged by his performance only.
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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.
