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Trent Reznor Quotes

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Trent Reznor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 17, 1965

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Myself Song Think Say Reason Afraid

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

John Hawkes

Chance Impact You Seeing Know Actor

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Good Knowledge Treat Pink Someone

Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment - some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they're younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.

John Darnielle

Time Art People Long Drama Mood

While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.

Michael Greger

Positive Stress Resilience Healthy

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Tracy Austin

Change Mother Winning Game Chance

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

Mickey Rourke

Life Funny Time Fun New York Acting

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don't have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.

Miguel Syjuco

Strength Courage Best I Am People

I can probably earn more in an hour of writing or even teaching than I could save in a whole week of cooking. Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and, eventually, it undermines any sense of responsibility.

Michael Pollan

Responsibility Ignorance Cooking Week

There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.

Donald Hall

Me Book Two Always Used Going

The writers on my team and the producers and executive producer should be called talent. We anchor four hours on Saturday and three on Sunday. How they do that astonishes me.

Poppy Harlow

Talent Me Team Saturday Sunday Four

What problem does Pan-Asianism attempt to solve? The problem is how to terminate the sufferings of the Asiatic peoples and how to resist the aggression of the powerful European countries. In a word, Pan-Asianism represents the cause of the oppressed Asiatic peoples.

Sun Yat-sen

Problem Powerful Aggression Oppressed

The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political.

Penelope Spheeris

Love Music Appreciation Political