Steve Albini Quotes
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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Fortunately, the DC Universe is full enough and replete enough with every kind of character that you could want, that it's not that hard to find the right character. Sometimes it's nothing more than an Easter egg, or a name drop, and sometimes it's someone like 'Deathstroke,' who is a huge part of the DC Universe.
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Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
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I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
