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Stephen Malkmus Quotes

I wouldn't say that 'Wowee Zowee' was a success. We probably had a chance, had I focused a little more, to capitalize on the attention the band got for 'Crooked Rain.'

Stephen Malkmus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 30, 1966

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I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Jenna Elfman

Good Fun People Think Laugh Enjoy

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education Think Teach Minds Possible

I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' and stuff like that.

Jean Louisa Kelly

Brother Me House Always Out Take

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

John Turturro

Work Best Quiet Personal Hard Tone

If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.

Tracy Chapman

Life Path Creative Chance Aesthetic

I took an improv class, and after my first class, I was like, 'Oh, I just want to do something like this. This is super fun.'

Michelle Wolf

Fun Want Class First Improv Just

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

Luis Miguel

Life Family I Am Talk Private Life

I'm a lot of work.

Lisa Marie Presley

Work Lot

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

Chris Messina

Life Funny Truth Truth Is Sometimes

Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.

Chrystia Freeland

Time Storm Story Financial Long

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect . . . You know, I'm in.

Brad Pitt

I Am Someone Enough You Know Forget

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

Bruce Hornsby

Feel Passionate Audience I Feel Like