Stuff Quotes - Page 60

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy.

Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love.

I think there's a misconception of my wanting to do dark stuff.

This is the life I live, and this is the stuff I experience. And like any good writer, I should just write about what goes in my life and what goes on around me. So that's what I chose to do.

I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where I don't use the high hat, and I don't use any crash cymbals. It just makes for an interesting sound because you don't really notice it when it's not there, but if it was there, you would definitely hear it.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.

I find that I love so much stuff and respect so many people who work in this industry and music in general. I've kind of learned that I've got to just stick to what I can do and try and do that really.

I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

Twitter is fun - I'm a tech guy, I love anything new, I'm big on all that stuff.

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.