Jerry Cantrell Quotes
A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).
Quotes to Explore
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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I'm a 'Harry Potter' fan, a 'Twilight' fan, and I think 'The Hunger Games' surpasses them all.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
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I've always lived in the moment.
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied – they don't after all, take a human life, so why take the life of an animal? Both are conscious beings with the same determination to survive. It is habit, and laziness and nothing else.
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I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
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In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
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Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man.
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Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
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On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California.
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A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).
