Layne Thomas Staley Quotes

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains

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• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Journey

• It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • California
  • Try

• When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Men
  • Change
  • Wait

• Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Death
  • Always

• How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without, in order to benefit by the contrast.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Simple

• There's a freedom there and an understanding of my career and the things I've done. I'm seen here as primarily a comic actor, which is OK, but I can go to New York and I do something that's very emotional. It would be lovely at some point to do something like that on film.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Career
  • Freedom

• The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

  

  Bono U2
  • World
  • Waiting

• … the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Cat
  • Lonely

• Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Peace

• For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, 'We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Wife
  • Crazy

• But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • People
  • Mind
  • Buddha

• Things just kind of stick with me, and writing, for me, is always an investigation into my own feelings about them. I wonder why things stick to me, and I try to synthesize those into a dramatic experience in some ways.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Experience

• 'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

  

  Blake Anderson
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • Hilarious

• I spend a lot of time on the 'Glee' set. A lot of time. Luckily we have to dance and rehearse, so we're always moving, but having such a tight schedule can make it hard to find the time to exercise. It's definitely a struggle!

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Dance

• I would love for musicals to come back on the screen.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly

• I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Up
  • Business
  • Training

• I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • People
  • Life
  • Kids

• A lot of times in comedy, and also in podcasting and television, there are different kinds of voices that can be celebrated. So you can have 'Insecure' exist, you can have a '2 Dope Queens' exist, you can have 'The Mindy Project' exist - very distinct, funny voices from women and from people of color.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • Different
  • Women

• When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.

  

  ASAP Ferg
  • Up
  • Together
  • Growing

• My title rivals are behind me but at the moment I am not thinking about that. My target is to finish on the podium and then well see where everybody else is.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Thinking
  • Target
  • Titles

• Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

  

  Serge Schmemann
  • Storytelling
  • Newspapers
  • Backgrounds

• I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Happy
  • First

• Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Dope
  • Whiskey
  • Titles