Chris Stein Quotes
We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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If there's a rift in the marriage - if someone feels neglected, frustrated, tempted by others, or unsure - then trouble can easily arise.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
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Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today. Even among the FBI's doubters, few disagree that the bureau has come a long way.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.
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I think the world would function extremely well with millions of little cooperative groups, all in relation to each other.
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It should be about this team, and it should be about these guys. It should be about our relationship. It shouldn't be about records.
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We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.
