Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
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"It pleases the Father that ALL fulness" should be there; and therefore there is nothing but emptiness anywhere else.
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I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.
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I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.
