Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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One important idea I hope is reflected in 'The Poe Shadow' is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does.
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Chanel is a very important vendor for Neiman Marcus. My favorite thing is the way they finish off the hems on dresses and jackets.
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There was a time when I had no work, and I had to sit at home for 4 years.
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I thought 'The Social Network' was fantastic.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
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That is one of the things I dream about for myself: to receive the 'golden ball' someday.
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I don't snowboard to win everything. I do it because I love it. I do it because I have fun, and everyone else can think whatever they want. For me, it's all about fun, and I enjoy it so much.
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People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.
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I started going gray in my early twenties.
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There are so many cruel decisions parents have to make when their child dies. The funeral director requested a sheet for the coffin, and I sent the cozy flannel one, pale blue with happy snowmen, that had just been put away with the winter linens.
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In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.
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Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
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Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.
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Great songs aren't written, they're rewritten
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As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.
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At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music.
