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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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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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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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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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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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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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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I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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I love to surf. Hawaii has some of the best waves in the world, and the most consistent as well. That's always fun.
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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.
