Scott Weiland Quotes
Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
Quotes to Explore
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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When I was a kid, during those days, you couldn't use instruments. It was against the pastor's religion, so all the singers would make these instruments with their voices. It was just unbelievable. I couldn't explain it.
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My goal was to leverage the power of movies and the reach they have and include important messages. Of course, they still have to be entertaining so that people will watch them, but I wanted to make sure there was a message, a takeaway.
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
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Eventually I want to subsidize my income with other creative outlets that are going to not keep me tied to the road so much.
