Vince Staples Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.
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Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.
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Care and pity are two different things.
