Scott Weiland Quotes
Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.
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The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
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There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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It was a great quarter by any measure. We did not have significant one-time effects as we did throughout the year last year.
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I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.
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Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.
