Michael Azerrad Quotes

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.

Michael Azerrad

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IdeasCoolBrainWritingYouNice

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Jeremy Renner

HumorWordsManMeActionHurt

I was a theater man, so I was never in the situation of being a handsome Hollywood leading man, and then having to age.

John Noble

AgeManHandsomeSituationHollywood

My standard Nando's order is a chicken breast burger served 'medium,' which is still fairly spicy.

John Lanchester

BurgerChickenSpicyOrderStill

Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.

Mauro Ranallo

SupportSurvivePersonWillWithout

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Siobhan Fahey

DepressionI AmRealityLoseGoOff

At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.

Trombone Shorty

DayEnd Of The DayEndNewWhatever

I feel that, as a Puerto Rican and Latin American musician, a lot of the stuff that I write, even if I mean it or not, is gonna have some elements of that.

Miguel Zenon

AmericanFeelMeanWriteStuffEven

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

DownStairsSheHimComing

People who are in a position of power like to throw their weight around, and that becomes abuse.

Jason Statham

PowerPeopleAbusePositionWeight

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

Douglas Fairbanks

FailureFearThoughtDramaForget

Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?

Colson Whitehead

PeopleWorldBookEndYouRules

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

Chuck Klosterman

MyselfWritingPrismThingsJust

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